Category: literature
Books Read
In 2022 I read 17 books. As usual I didn’t read much fiction at all. Toni Morrison’s A Mercy, though, […]
Books Read in 2020
My reading this past year was all over the place. I began 2020 participating in an in-person reading group called […]
Midnight in Drohobych
Originally, this drink, that I designed after translating Bruno Schulz’s “Undula” and in honor of its release, which took place […]
Haunted Future
The future is haunted. It’s something that I’ve known for a few years now. I first recognized this state of […]
The Plat Thickens: A Review of John Trefry’s Plats
In his Meditations, Descartes cites watching people bundled in winter dress at a distance as an example of the gap […]
A Year in the Arts
We have been ardent supporters of the arts since our undergraduate days. Last year around this time, a colleague at […]
Opening(s): An Education
When Salvador Dalí was asked about Fred Halstead’s fisting classic L.A. Plays Itself showing at MoMA, he is said to […]
“The sea was more important now than the shore.”
Since starting To the Lighthouse I’d been noticing all kinds of references to subjects and objects, which was prompted chiefly […]
