Feelings
A short story about how to achieve empathy through compassion and imagination using the complexities of young children and adults as a prism.
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A quiet studio for writing, visuals, and notes.
The Discovery of Heaven
The Discovery of Heaven is framed by an ongoing conversation between two angels in heaven, looking down upon Earth. God has become profoundly disillusioned with humanity—specifically our technological arrogance, moral failures, and the dangerous hubris of splitting the atom. Feeling that mankind has broken its side of the spiritual bargain, God decides to terminate His covenant with the world. To do this, he demands the retrieval of the physical stone tablets containing the original Ten Commandments, removing them from the...
Read more →American Wealth Pizza
A pizza graphic representing how many slices of pie Americans are getting.
Read more →Artist Anthony Triano
New Jersey Artist and Sculptor Anthony Triano (1928-97)
Read more →BBC 3-hour David Attenborough Nature Feature
Three hours of incredible best-of BBC David Attenborough Nature features.
Read more →Making a Poem with Kindling
Making a poem with kindling is easy. Gather allusions and pine needles…
Read more →On the ending of Colbert's Late Night
CBS caved, law firms caved, Tech giants caved. Colbert instead has the entire CBS building sucked into a green vortex, shrunk, and put into a snow globe
Read more →I tramp a perpetual journey (Whitman)
Section 46, Song of Myself, Walt Whitman
Read more →I'm applying for my part of the Trump Slush Fund
It’s time to stake a claim in the new $1.776 billion slush fund for those targeted unfairly by the government. I will accept nothing less than $5 million for: the fact that every day I have to be living with the shame of being an American; that my subscription to media outlets I had formerly enjoyed now are brim full with the evil committed by a salacious regime only moderately acquainted with the Constitution or the nation’s history; that their...
Read more →Tolstoy Diary Entry
Tolstoy diary entry as a young man
Read more →Vigil
a woman who died tragically in her early twenties during the 1970s and now serves as an ethereal death doula.
Read more →Mother River
Short stories from renowned Chinese author Can Xue.
Read more →Musems and Women and other stories
A collection of short stories.
Read more →To a Wall of Flame in a Steel Mill, Syracuse, New York, 1969
Larry Levis brings raw emotion to his poetry; “To a Wall of Flame in a Steel Mill, Syracuse, New York, 1969” goes from zero to sixty in 3 seconds.
Read more →Satantango
Labyrinthine masterpiece that captures the slow-motion collapse of a Hungarian collective farm.
Read more →Palestinian Walks
A series of reflective essays about moving through the landscapes of the West Bank and Gaza region.
Read more →The Guest House
This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival....
Read more →Time is Joy (“El tiempo es alegría”)
Pablo Neruda poem.
Read more →The Golden House
Nero Golden, patriarch in his twilight, a Lear in a silk dressing gown, presiding over a trio of sons who embody current fractured anxieties.
Read more →The Assault
A truly remarkable novel that begins with a tragic turn of events for the Steenwijk family
Read more →The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Matsuo Bashō’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North is a travel narrative recounting an 1689 journey cross-country.
Read more →Stoner
It’s all spoilers below, so get the book and read it. I found it engaging, though I have a bit of trouble with the premise some back of the book blurb makes about ‘readers worldwide’ are coming to a new appreciation of this book. William Stoner feels stuck on a family farm, performing the same chores day-in-day-out. Perhaps his parents pick up on this and decide to send him to university to pursue a course in agriculture, which he gladly...
Read more →The Enigma of Arrival
V.S. Naipaul novel about an immigrant's experience of England.
Read more →Tomorrow x3
A friend’s daughter was assigned this book in class (high school) and she recommended it highly, so I figured, ok, I know she’s a bright young woman with a dad with good taste in friends, so I read the first free chapters and was hooked. First, it’s about the gaming industry, second it’s about young entrepreneurs, third it’s about friendship, fourth it has allegorical underpinnings from a certain Greek epic, fifth, it touches on many contemporary hot-button political issues regarding...
Read more →Shadow Ticket
Pynchon’s Shadow Ticket arrives like a cipher slipped under the door of contemporary America.
Read more →What We Can Know
The thematic core of the novel interrogates the limits of knowledge and memory.
Read more →The Swimmer
Ned Merrill is at a party and suddenly envisions himself as a great man about to embark on a swim across the county by way of backyard pools in a tony suburban NY community.
Read more →In Xanadu
A travel adventure to commemorate Marco Polo’s journey along the Silk Road, Scottish historian (Cambridge student at the time he took this journey), William Dalrymple, uses older historic narratives and maps to help guide him and fellow travelers from the Holy Land to Xanadu (Shan-tu, just north of Beijing). Dalrymple's more recent book, The Golden Road posits that Indian ships were a more economical and vital trade route than the better known (and slower) land route of the Silk Road....
Read more →Antarctica
I separate these very well-written stories into the following categories: dark, sad or scary.
Read more →Seven Empty Houses
Schweblin, an Argentinian writer, has written the finest story I've yet read about someone experiencing dementia…
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