Archive - the thought of the thing

"Iʼll keep after summer/until Iʼve forestalled his pretexts and lies,/Iʼll keep after him/and heʼll keep after me—/summer and a man/telling each other…

Jul 16 •

June 2025

No One Knows by Osamu Dazai

"I won’t reveal the name of this little station. I don’t need to; one day you’ll see me here.”

Jun 18 •

April 2025

Some Odd Days: Journals, 2020-2024

Excerpts from a chapbook

Apr 10 •

March 2025

In Conversation with Sophia Terazawa

"I believe I'm a ghost..."

Mar 19 •

January 2025

The Year in Reading

Brief notes on great books

Jan 9 •

October 2024

On Anniversaries and Miss Macintosh, My Darling

"Every heart is the other heart. Every soul is the other soul. Every face is the other face. The individual is the one illusion."

Oct 24, 2024 •

September 2024

Mother River, Stone Village, Smog City

That's so Can Xue

Sep 16, 2024 •

This is my Tree Friend

Perfect Days & Mild Vertigo

Sep 12, 2024 •

April 2024

Notebook Fragment 1

from a short story

Apr 21, 2024 •

December 2023

On Barbara Molinard and Malika Moustadraf

"We have a chance at seizing—in death—something that, in life, is elusive."

Dec 1, 2023 •

July 2023

On Mild Vertigo by Mieko Kanai

Or, "If you don't have time to be bored, you'll be exhausted."

Jul 25, 2023 •

May 2023

notes on books, etc.

May 11, 2023 •

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