What electric thing passed through the screen, over the many miles between Memphis and Hong Kong?
Category Archives: New writing
Funny Weather We’re Having
The day the coup came, we woke up to a creative destruction.
Elegy For Number 10
Maradona can not be measured over a lifetime.
What I Want To Achieve In My Writing
In December 2016, I wrote the following in a google drive document called “What I Want To Achieve In My Writing.” First, I am most concerned with writing something beautiful. That it have the clarity, catchiness, melancholy, humor, rhythm, tenderness and unity of thought that I love in writing, this is what I mean byContinue reading “What I Want To Achieve In My Writing”
The Passed Pawn
The important thing about chess: I never got better. I mostly lose. Badly.
Our Plague Year: After
Why should I believe that there is a magic vaccine waiting for us, on the other side of tomorrow?
The Fight At The Start Of The World
The fight was not about the fight.
My Empress
What, precisely, do I own?
A Question About The Past, In Search Of The Future
Learning is the most marvelous, wondrous thing that the machine you have does, and it is the terrible price that it is extracting from you.
Kill the Dog
What we can not account for, is the dog.
