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Category Archives: New writing
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.
On Home: Letter to Alexis, a German friend, June 2020
Dear Alexis, Well, as it turned out, I owed you a letter about home anyway! So let us talk home and house and heimat und die unheimlich. When I was a boy I read a wonderful children’s book called the Big Orange Splot, by Daniel Pinkwater, in which Mr. Plumbean lives in a beautiful houseContinue reading “On Home: Letter to Alexis, a German friend, June 2020”
On Jews, Looting, and Whiteness
As the George Floyd protests spread across the country and the world, my social media flooded with protest news, infographics about police brutality, and calls for solidarity. But there was a note of hesitation, primarily from older white Jews, uncles and bubbes and synagogue friends, commenting on my friends’ posts. They wanted to support theContinue reading “On Jews, Looting, and Whiteness”
Mordecai Martin, Writer 