The Five of Coins
A review of The Fifth Wound, by Aurora Mattia
More issues
Post-Smoke Sunday Morning
Instead, the rain patters my ears, the birds talk
These Wildfires Are a 2020 Redux
Yes, but.
Unfrancisco
A review of Uranians, the short story collection by Theodore McCombs.
Bagels in Childhood
What poppyseed bagels from East Rock Breads make me think of.
Revisiting Neffy
A review of The Memory of Animals by Claire Fuller, an advance reader’s copy received from Tin House, on sale June 6, 2023.
Weekend Synchronicities and Affirmations
There are days and weeks like this one that make me love the world for what it gives to the listening.
Episode Three: Breads
Rolling brownouts are now common every summer. Scav crews just move faster and adapt quicker to the “innovative tactics” of each newly-appointed energy czar.
Symbiosis: A Day
All this, the bird provides them.
The Cathedral on My Fortieth
That’s enough said for now, and on this day of midlife, my 40th birthday, here at the apogee of the thrown pebble arcing towards the water, is as good a time as any to make that known.