thepointmag.com/forms-of-life/… On COWBOY CARTER

Printed and ready for defense. The dissertation hermitage ends soon!

My sister’s running in the Olympic 800m finals !!!!!

Tomorrow, I teach my first classes at Wesleyan: Black Horror Film, and Horror Film and Philosophy. Hell yeah :) Feeling nervous: any words of comfort for a new inductee into the world of professor-dom would be much appreciated! Hard not to feel like a dummy in my 20s.

Sooo, some good news: my first book––a philosophical meditation on black horror cinema––is under contract at UChicago Press. It'll be out sometime in 2026, god willing.

God, I fucking love this bizarre movie. I wish everyone loved it too. Here’s my best effort to seduce you.

The latest column in nicholas’s series on black horror, on monsters, anti-black mythologies and “Son of Ingagi”: thepointmag.com/criticism/the-…

SOS: looking for great academic histories of 1930s American horror, with a specific need for the production/reception context of Mamoulian’s DR JEKYLL. Pls retweet! Help me write my black horror film book!

David Lynch’s movies are some of the greatest gifts life has ever given me. I have rarely felt the joy, wonder, terror, and ineffable sense of beauty that his movies have given me. I hope he left feeling just a fraction of that awe.

feels like i've been in hermitage forever, and the end is not in sight, but the baby's starting to take shape....!