“The first all-Black punk band Pure Hell is nearly written right out of the history, in spite of being along from the trough to the crest of the first wave…Something […]
12 (Or So) Books I’m Stoked To Read In 2026
“Bro, you ain’t the only one who picks up the newspaper, knows where the library is, likes the big humbug in Beowulf, moving out on Grendel and whatnot, or fighting […]
Friday Links: Start The Year With Malarkey
“With everything that happened, she now fully believed Charlie’s story. She shivered, as the reality of everything agitated her that much more deeply.” – Lauren Bolger, ‘The Barre Incidents’ What […]
Friday Links: Yeah Let’s Read Bernadette Mayer Again This Year Edition
“Snow describes a pattern on a series of roofs, there’s no one around. // Lewis comes in. Marie says we’ve got to have Talking Heads dance music.” – Bernadette Mayer, […]
Three Things I’m Excited For in 2026
“So much for comedy. So much for supposedly serious stuff.” – Kurt Vonnegut, ‘Galápagos’ Programming Note: there will be a Friday Links this Friday—gotta read Midwinter’s Day to end the […]
Friday Links: On A Long Enough Timeline, You Still Have To Get Out Of Bed In The Morning Edition
“come by— / the song is yours / if you want it— // this piano sitting by the / side of the road, playing / dead music in the breeze.” […]
Ways My Thinking Changed In 2025
“In the long run, the survivors would still have been not the most ferocious strugglers but the most efficient fisherfolk.” – Kurt Vonnegut, ‘Galápagos’ As someone who likes the idea […]
Friday Links: Do or Do Not, There Is Only Regret Edition
“At the moment of my utterance, I had been clear and certain about what I had wanted to communicate, but once I said it, I felt nothing but stinging regret.” […]
2025 Year In Review
“The waiter whipped out a handkerchief and removed the feather. And that too was a horror: what have we lost when you can’t shake off your own jacket or wash […]
Friday Links: God Help Us, The Moon Happened To Us
“My least favorite part of the day is from 2:34 to 4:56 in the afternoon.” – Percival Everett, ‘Dr. No’ If you were able to, I hope you took some […]