Currently hopping between Can Xue and Ben Okri, both stellar.

I wrote about some of the best books I've read in the heat of this summer, including works by António Lobo Antunes, Lisa Tuttle, Alexis Wright, Jacqueline Harpman, Irene Solá, Yoko Tawada, and Marcia Douglas. thethoughtofthething.substack.com/p/summer-rea...

Some highly anticipated library orders of mine came in. I can’t believe Quiet Dawn hasn’t been discussed much online since it just released. Just look at that opening.

Midnight is Not In Everyone’s Reach and Lili is Crying share a certain fluidity that is helping me work through some polyvocal stuff I’m doing in my own book.

My debut chapbook, Some Odd Days, is available now from Bottlecap Press! It is a collection of journal writing from 2020-2024 that blends daily life, fiction, memories, travel writing, and thoughts on the nature writing to form a portrait of yours truly. bottlecap.press/products/som...

I spoke with Sophia Terazawa about her new novel, Tetra Nova. Like the book, our conversation is an expansive exploration of borders, ghosts, disfluency, time, and love. open.substack.com/pub/thethoug...

Brief notes on some of my favorite reads from last year: open.substack.com/pub/thethoug...

New shelves, new books, new lines (from Herscht 07769) to mull over

My writing nook is coming along nicely 😏

Moving entails boxes of books, empty shelves, and a good long novel to see me through.

Working on author photos for her upcoming story collection Hagiographies of Lost Dogs.

The White Book // Han Kang // Deborah Smith

On the Calculation of Volume by Solvej Balle. Translated by Barbara Haveland. I feel unsafe reading this. 10/10.

Absolutely engrossed in Oğuz Atay. Had to read this spread several times.

For those outside of my twitter crowd, I wrote about memory and trauma in the novels Miss Macintosh, my Darling by Marguerite Young and Anniversaries by Uwe Johnson. My latest on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/thethoug...

Finding solace in the dead-eyed humor of Etheridge Knight’s poetry

Beautiful book mail from New Directions 😍 Glad to see Schoolgirl, one of Dazai’s best stories, is included in No One Knows.

I have to stop reading when he gives me this look

Hoping to spend much of next year completing and thinking through the work of Mishima, Dazai, & Tsushima. All three share an emotional landscape within me. Currently loving the gentleness in The Sound of Waves.

the thought of the thing is thinking in the blue sky