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Tuesday 109: Vocab
Absalom, Absalom! Chapters 3 and 4
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Tuesday 108: Remembrance
A poem for Chris
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Tuesday 107: Vocab
Absalom, Absalom! Chapter 2
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Tuesday 106: Vocab
I’m re-reading what I can now say with confidence is my favorite book, Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner. It’s a consuming little undertaking, however enjoyable, so I thought I’d share it by maintaining a sort of glossary of words, phrases, and references I look up as I
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Tuesday 108: The Week
Best thing I read this week: Late entry, but more easily accessible than Tony Iantosca’s Crisis Inquiry (which I very much enjoyed) is Sam Anderson’s NYT Magazine piece on a visit to Ghibli Park. Anderson evaluates the work of Hayao Miyazaki through a perspective as demanding as one
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Tuesday 107: Poem
Tech week Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedWe believe that it would hurt our ability to remember. "Don't forget about me," it always seems to be saying. A detective in the weeds, or stood at the sink, snaking the drain to
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Tuesday 106: The Week
Best thing I read this week: Seymour Hersh’s bombshell report that US Navy divers blew up the Nord Stream pipeline. Hersh broke the story of the My Lai massacre and cover-up, Abu Ghraib, and a bunch of stuff in between. It’s a gripping, necessarily lengthy report, full of
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Tuesday 105: Untitled self portraits
I have way too many books on my shelf. About a week ago, already neck deep in Ulysses S. Grant’s memoirs and a re-read of Eric Foner’s short history of Reconstruction,1 I decided to buy a handful of books by John Ashbery, moved to action by his
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Tuesday 104: This was Always Going to Happen
When you consider something historically, it’s important to avoid the tempting “What if…” construct of inevitability. “Could _____ have been avoided?” Is a question, sure, and something you can think about, it’s just not a legitimate historical inquiry. Everything is inevitable because it happened. When 24 year-old Buffalo Bills
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Poem: Conversation
Conversation Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedThe present is a world because the public arrives at a natural corner, new styles in stone on the beach. This is a utopia. It’s just haunted. Wake up. Or has my clothing lost you to your manuals?
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Tuesday 103: The Phones of Perception
By the time he’d reached the age of 20 in the early 1880s, Evander Berry Wall, the grandson of a successful rope manufacturer, had inherited more than $2 million and was emerging as a prominent member of New York’s cafe society. He owned horses, dined exclusively at the
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New: Tuesday Chats
Today I’m announcing a new thing: Tuesday Subscriber Chat. I’m still working out the kinks, but Substack describes this feature as: A conversation space in the Substack app, exclusively for my subscribers — kind of like a group chat or live hangout. I have designs on stuff like baseball