In October 2021, I attended a literary reading that was also a twilight moment. Like many things, I wouldn’t understand the importance of it until after it passed: Megan Boyle,...
According to some interpretations of Vedic cosmology, our solar system has reached its fourth and final age. We’ll experience gradual decline in the form of social alienation,...
Hollywood made me think that a conference is supposed to be sexy. All across America, I thought, business travelers were wearing suits, ordering room service, and bumping into...
I’m meeting someone at a bar and she says she’s the one in the booth reading Anna Karenina. Indie-lit darling Shy Watson is tackling Infinite Jest for...
ONCE A DAY, at a random time, my laptop webcam photographs me. A masochistic ritual that still startles: to open a new Google tab and see my own face. I dash off a response to the...