Can the jail free everybody so summer can be fun😂😂😂

50s - Invisible Man 60s - The Golden Notebook 70s - A Bend in the River 80s - The Transit of Venus 90s- A Suitable Boy 00s - A Naked Singularity 10s - Go Went Gone 20s - The Most Secret Memory of Men

I wrote about the artistic aspects of restaurant menus for Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics. libertiesjournal.com/online-article…

Here’s a review I wrote, now up on The Adroit Journal theadroitjournal.org/2025/06/11/a-r…

CF Ramuz wrote a weird novel about the sun crashing into the Earth. Here’s my review of it, on 3:AM Magazine 3ammagazine.com/3am/into-the-s…

I reviewed Lucas Schaefer's "The Slip" (Simon & Schuster) for The Village Voice. Great book. Very funny. villagevoice.com/portnoys-under…

A sleeping antelope incised on rock up to 10,000 years ago at Tin Taghirt, Tassili n'Ajjer in Algeria

There are two tornadoes in this photo.

I reviewed John Gregory Dunne’s funny memoir of a sad summer in Vegas Los Angeles Review of Books McNally Editions lareviewofbooks.org/article/absolu…

Many are calling Michael Clune's Pan the "book of the summer." I reviewed it for the Oxford Review of Books the-orb.org/post/the-seaso…

Gideon’s short story is great

"[Pan] is as funny and unconventional as his memoir was; it’s a book one might do well to steal language and ideas from… Clune’s language, as Lerner hinted, is undeniably lovely and his ideas worth lingering over.” —Oxford Review of Books the-orb.org/post/the-seaso…

Severe warned storm near Ideal, SD #sdwx

Reading too much WG Sebald is a dangerous thing. I wrote about it here for the Harvard Review harvardreview.org/book-review/ab…

Here's a review I wrote of a fun book about vampires, out now from McNally Editions. Enjoy! full-stop.net/2025/10/13/rev…

58,000 dollars is an almost inconceivably huge amount of money to me

“I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore.” ―Don DeLillo