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2023 in reading

This year was another fairly abysmal one for reading, certainly among my least fruitful since I began compiling end-of-year lists. It was very similar to last year, marked by nearly identical problems of concentration and a frustrating lack of the immersive quality that typically makes reading so alluring. Thankfully, there were a few exceptions, and […]

met up with a few friends at the park

2022 in reading

As I find myself at the end of the year thinking back on what I read in 2022, sadly only a few books spring immediately to mind. For some time now I have felt a growing distance between me—the reader—and the book in hand. I am still not sure why. I’ve been reading fewer books […]

review of disembodied

My review of Christina Tudor-Sideri’s novel Disembodied (Sublunary Editions, 2022) has been published at Heavy Feather Review. …Tudor-Sideri’s novel queries the nature of being, relentlessly pondering bodies, souls, memory, death, and time—spoken through the voice of a narrator experiencing her own disappearance.

book review published

My review of Christina Tudor-Sideri’s novel Disembodied (Sublunary Editions, 2022) has been published at Heavy Feather Review. …Tudor-Sideri’s novel queries the nature of being, relentlessly pondering bodies, souls, memory, death, and time—spoken through the voice of a narrator experiencing her own disappearance.

linkboy

linkboy (lingk’boi) n. A boy formerly hired to carry a torch to guide persons along dark streets. (found in: The American Heritage Dictionary, 2nd College Ed.)

On the topic of vacation

Now is the time when everyone is on vacation. To discern this, one need only scroll through one’s social media feed of choice and view the endless stream of photos of one’s family members, friends, colleagues, and vague acquaintances having ‘experiences’ in places other than their familiar surroundings. This practice of sharing vacation images of […]

zero boys ‘civilization’s dying’

Civilization’s dyingAnd no one’s realizingThe position of hate stuck inside the gun

roy montgomery – kafka was correct

death to jargon

Jargon is a plague eroding the sanctity of language. Every field of specialization has its own filthy corral of jargon that its writers pluck from with glee and force on anyone unfortunate enough to have to read the literature these hacks have regurgitated onto the page. And actually…I do wonder about their intentionality in selecting […]