“Foreclosure Gothic is a twisted melodrama animated by close encounters with addiction, incest, and death by misadventure.” —from @kennethdillon.bsky.social’s review of Foreclosure Gothic www.thebeliever.net/a-review-of-...

likely name for a whiskey distiller to have

Thrilled to be in the 150th issue of @thebeliever.net with a review of Harris Lahti’s debut novel FORECLOSURE GOTHIC (link below)

I have a new story live in @phoebejournal.bsky.social today! It’s about a funeral for a star. It was rejected 19 times and I'm so grateful to the editors at Phoebe for loving it as much as I always have 💫 phoebejournal.com/rigel-the-kn...

"I respect Richter for putting his music at risk for good reason. Other composers who claim to be inspired by literature are not alert to the dangers he evades." The 2025 Long Play Festival in review van-magazine.com/mag/long-pla...

My first for @vanmusicmag.bsky.social (!) is a review of this year's Long Play festival, which featured, among many great and bizarre performances, 100 tubas descending on the Fort Greene Park farmers market. (Link below.)

White smoke! Conclave over! Introducing the new VAN! 💨 Is Europe experiencing "Ring" fatigue? 💨 100 tubas at Long Play Festival 💨 Can a real scene compete with an idealized screen? 💨 Austin Wulliman’s string quartet creations 💨 Dispatch from the Frick reopening van-magazine.com/mag/wagner-r...

Yeats, reply guy, defending OP:

“Against the inclination toward easy explanation, black and white moral judgment, or, worse, the self-indulgent retreat to cynicism…we must embrace the hard work of explaining and interpreting atrocity.” open.substack.com/pub/placehol...

excited for this one

Against the advice of my golem I wrote a quick newsletter on the Mamdani campaign

I love political memorabilia

Arthur Danto, on the meaning of a book’s title

despite this very nice letter the municipal guild of butchers was unable to convince Dvořák to put his talents to good use

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relieved to hear that David Lynch’s last words were “I’ll see you again in 25 years”