Category: writing

• On the Prosthetic

  Jan 10

  After spending a few hours this past week trying on new frames and ordering new lenses for distance vision, now seems like a suitable time to think and write about… more ›

• In the Trees

  Sep 16

  Here’s a photo of me with my head literally in the trees. The clouds would’ve been too easy, too cliched. I don’t know how writers do it. No, not writing.… more ›

• An Excerpt from the Utterly Brilliant Book I’m Writing on Autographesis, the As If, and Blanchovian Phenomenology

  Aug 16

  For art to be truly free to achieve its goal of total freedom and to escape the normative exigencies that have shackled it throughout much of history (that is, for… more ›

• Omit Thy Fog Riot

  Jul 18

  When writing about Surrealism and automatism, what better way to conduct research than to do a little automatic writing and some exquisite corpse exercises? I mean, anybody can read an… more ›

• #Cities

  Jul 16

  When I was an undergraduate in the late 1980s, I wrote a series of extremely short narratives that I called “shorter stories.” Now it seems everyone, including Lydia Davis, is… more ›

• Roman Holiday (In Ostia down by the formless sea.)

  Jun 21

  To prepare in advance for my time in Rome (at Italian cafes), I’ve spent the past several days reading and watching Pasolini and writing poems in honor of Pasolini: evoking/provoking/convoking… more ›

• Thursday Evening

  Jun 14

  Sitting here on a Thursday evening listening to PJ Harvey play on Apple TV while Stephen bakes a cheesecake from scratch for Shayne’s birthday, which we will celebrate tomorrow when… more ›

• In Memory of M.B.

  Feb 20

  Burn all the books. The word is eternal. L’écriture—la maison de l’être. In abandonment, the writer writes to abandon what has been written in order that writing can be written in abandonment.… more ›

• The Address

  Jun 14

  The letter was simply addressed: l’Étranger, Rue Perdu, Nevers. It contained an account of the war and of life before war. It slipped out of pocket, down sewers and over the… more ›

• Day Two

  Nov 29

  Of the days on which I may have received an email or a phone call informing me that someone somewhere (see previous map) wants to interview me based upon my… more ›