Writing

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Essays

Opinions, journals, and thought experiments. Published primarily on Substack — read one piece at a time, or one issue at a time.

280 essays85 publications

GLEAN Magazine

I asked my friends to write me an essay. Or share a blurb. Turned our work into a pressed and printed magazine. Free for everyone!

readglean.com

Book reviews

Every book I’ve finished, newest first — star ratings, the reviews I wrote, and for the silent ones a passage I copied out.

485 booksnewest first

Quotations

284 passages and quotes saved across a decade+ of reading.

59 writers109 books

Something Western

A novel. Two young men, one Texas summer, 1959 — and the question of what else is out there.

Built to be read on a phone, in sections, the way it actually gets read.

2023–24≈26k words22 sections

King Lear, Annotated

Shakespeare’s King Lear with the real marginalia of three writers who read it hard — reproduced at the exact lines they marked.

Herman Melville, John Milton, and John Keats, two centuries apart, in one reading text.

1623–20263 annotators124pp

Inspo

Photographers and other artists whose work inspires my own (and for whom I want others to be more exposed to).

110 workscredited