Gavin PaulinHuman PartsSavage with Loveliness: What I Will Tell My Daughter About Reading Cormac McCarthy·18 min read·Nov 28, 2023--15--15
Gavin PaulinThe Adventures of Spenser Oakheart, World's Greatest Untenured ProfessorThe Decanting·4 min read·Sep 23, 2023--2--2
Gavin PaulThe 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…·5 min read·Dec 31, 2022--2--2
Gavin PaulThe ExecutionYou don’t really see the body drop. The frame is tight, claustrophobic. There is a persistent wobble in the grainy cell phone footage…·3 min read·Dec 13, 2022----
Gavin PaulinThe Adventures of Spenser Oakheart, World's Greatest Untenured ProfessorThe GnawingThese are the dark days of summer.·6 min read·Aug 30, 2022--2--2
Gavin PaulinHuman PartsThe Corpse, the Ax, and the Ungloved HandOn the Enduring Pleasures of Sad Stories·15 min read·Aug 21, 2021----
Gavin PaulThe 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…·6 min read·Jul 15, 2021--2--2
Gavin PaulinThe 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…·5 min read·Jun 11, 2021--1--1
Gavin PaulMemories of the Future, or, Somewhere in Indiana — Reflections on the PandemicAnd then one day the whole world just stopped.·6 min read·Mar 6, 2021--4--4