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The Most Important Sentence I Read This YearFour words. That’s all it is. Four words, four syllables. I came across it late in my year of reading. Cormac McCarthy’s The Passenger was…Dec 31, 20222Dec 31, 20222
The ExecutionYou don’t really see the body drop. The frame is tight, claustrophobic. There is a persistent wobble in the grainy cell phone footage…Dec 13, 2022Dec 13, 2022
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Published inHuman PartsThe Corpse, the Ax, and the Ungloved HandOn the Enduring Pleasures of Sad StoriesAug 21, 2021Aug 21, 2021
The Hammers and the RibbonIt’s strange how much of your life hides in plain sight. The typewriter has been sitting on the shelf in our living room for years now, on…Jul 15, 20212Jul 15, 20212
Published inThe Adventures of Spenser Oakheart, World's Greatest Untenured ProfessorThe LeaveningTry making bread, everyone said. Flour, salt, water, heat. Tap the veins of civilization and marvel at the primal embers of human…Jun 11, 20211Jun 11, 20211
Memories of the Future, or, Somewhere in Indiana — Reflections on the PandemicAnd then one day the whole world just stopped.Mar 6, 20214Mar 6, 20214