An Absence of Sea (April, 2026)

Three reading goals for this year: 1. Read the entire Bible. 2. Read more contemporary fiction from authors discovered here on X (one of the only reasons to be on social media). 3. Write about everything I read.

NR Glantz by Tobias Ryan (Tobias Ryan )

G.K. Chesterton on mysticism

'In the cruel and terrible time in which our generation has been condemned to live on this earth, we must never make peace with evil. We must never become indifferent to others or undemanding of ourselves.' Vasily Grossman

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Well, here we are. Another beam holding up democratic mass culture drops out. But I literally can't imagine my childhood without these.

Favorite movie from the year I was born.

Some of us still do.

As if reading isn’t living. As if staring out a train window isn’t seeing. As if watching a symphony isn’t being.

Rumination’s poison courses through the blood today.

Quiet out in the countryside of Korea.

Forthcoming on April 16, An Absence of Sea, a letter across time woven from dreams, intimacies, lived fragments, and remembered voices, where the self meets its double and those who echo within it. erratumpress.com/an-absence-of-… My gratitude to Ansgar Allen and Erratum

Maurice Blanchot died 23 years ago today. In September 1999, I read him for the first time—an encounter I eternalized in An Absence of Sea, but his influence lingers throughout this and all my other books, and there are even days when it feels that all my writing I owe to him.

“Sharing distress with you is a happy thing.” (Mascolo to Blanchot, 1969) 🖤 Thinking of Blanchot today.