Murnane on Kerouac’s On the Road: “The book was like a blow to the head that wipes out all memory of the recent past. For six months after I first read it I could hardly remember the person I had been beforehand. For six months I believed I had all the space I needed. […]

Truth is...

At least Obama and his publicists also got dumber this year

had a great time talking with gregory conway about Laxness, Norwegian literature, my own work, and art in general also mentioned: Vesaas, Fosse, Faulkner, DFW, Edy Poppy, solitude, family, and horticulture (link below)

Venturing into unexamined Type of Guy territory now that I have a vehicle in New York. First up: 1010 Wins Guy

I used to get so excited by good writers publishing essays about dumbshit pop culture stuff. But realizing now it’s such a rare talent to be able to write about base, meaningless shit in a compelling and intellectually honest way

Reading CP Snow’s “Two Cultures” in the age of the Epstein emails

Two tech writers choose 5 paragraphs of prose and compare it to AI. A real moment!

Ridiculous reaction but I find it very annoying when people use words like “devastating” or “tragic” to describe the death of someone over the age of like 80

20 year old communications major at Auburn on Instagram live:

Three minutes into the Ben Lerner talk, I leaned over to my fiancé and said “I bet they’re gonna talk about Alexander Kluge now”

Saw this image and thought “Mr Met cortisol-spiked after Mr Mayor mog—“

Shreds front to back but this in particular is one of my favorite metaphors ever written:

This was the first headline that appeared on the screen in my office building’s elevator this morning nytimes.com/2026/04/11/bus…

Is this what the NYT Mag’s new column is

One thing I appreciate about Ben Lerner is his line about the the air around buildings, tree branches etc being sharpened or ‘charged’ after walking out of an art museum

Before MJ Lenderman, there was another youtu.be/g2a1i92tqCg?si…