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.
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.
To Bridgette, who already unmatched me, And rightfully so. I didn’t mean it. Hinge said We were “Most Compatible”. Why?
O, Cassini! If you tried at once and everwise you would not succeed But for the rings of Saturn a-glisten she sang of such great deeds.
A Return to Form My headphones on, I sat and played along for 45 minutes with my atrophied muscle memory and the practice only made for years on the steering wheel or desk.
Easy Sell: The Suicide Squad I feel vaguely familiarly emotional, but somewhat empty for not having earned it.