There's a new excerpt from Phoretics (Paradise Editions): minorliteratures.com/2025/06/19/pho… This group of aphorisms plays with the ideas of Hazlitt, an essayist whose work has exerted a great influence on my own. Grateful to Tobias and the whole minor literature[s] team, as ever.

Quite nice.

Happy St. John's Eve

For the Almanac, I write about the Romantic art of Brian Wilson: paradise-almanac.net/p/surfs-up

very cool ⁦Israel A. Bonilla⁩ ⁦Matthew Spencer⁩

I've resumed work on these literary dialogues. There will be a new one in a couple of weeks. Meanwhile— On Jean Paul's The Campaner Thal: israelabonilla.wixsite.com/website/post/a…

Excited about today's post from Paradise Editions Phoretics, by Israel A. Bonilla Beautiful production by Matthew Spencer. Exquisite layout and typesetting. Hand-sewn.

Daydreamers is out in the world now. "A story of immigration, brilliantly inflected with undercurrents both noir and comic.” —Susan Daitch "Daydreamers kind of sinks in slowly. Then it becomes absorbing in a way that doesn't let up." —Stacey Levine Cover concept by steve barbaro

For the Almanac, I wrote about stormwater collection systems and a rarely screened comedy by Kiyoshi Kurosawa: paradise-almanac.net/p/did-i-exist

From Philadelphia to Guadalajara: paradiseeditions.net/products/phore…

Reprint work in progress, with a neat epigraph. "A gentle knight came pricking o'er the plain."

We agree!

For the Almanac, I continue a series of weird fiction short stories set in and around historical Philadelphia (1682-1976): paradisealmanc.substack.com/p/strange-tale…

Reprint in progress: Shadowings by Lafcadio Hearn, an excellent collection from 1900, featuring studies of Japanese legends and linguistics as well as more personal, Gothic and Symbolist-inspired narratives. An odd duck in Hearn's catalog but all the stronger for it.

"The conclusion of this story I do not think to be morally satisfying. It is not recorded that the corpse-rider became insane..." More layout work for Shadowings by Lafcadio Hearn. I tightened the leading on the body text as a compromise for a relatively large font size.

For the Almanac, I write about Lafcadio Hearn and typographical symbol known as the dinkus: paradisealmanc.substack.com/p/the-beautifu…