Not to toot my own horn (while, of course, still partially tooting it), but it's not an everyday occurrence that a great American essayist and literary critic - Sven Birkerts, in Tupelo Quarterly - likens your writing to the work of two Nobel Prize winners at once in one sentence... or Sentence.

"...the stories are bursting real heart, real melancholy, and real questioning from an acutely sensitive and perceptive soul," writes Alexander Hackett. Read the rest of the review at the link below: mtlreviewofbooks.ca/reviews/sent... @mikhail-iossel.bsky.social @llpmtl.bsky.social

Never once has Trump condemned a single atrocity committed by Putin. Trump played golf while Putin was killing women and children with a missile strike on Kryvyi Rih, Zelensky's hometown. Trump played golf and didn’t say a word about it.

The dedications page of my upcoming book, SENTENCE

Let me know if you've ever seen anything more ridiculously and obscenely pathetic than this so-called "Trump dance" -- the Dance of the Dunces.

early-morning window view, Nairobi

I was born under totalitarianism and spent the first 30 years of my life in a totalitarian society. It is no place for one to remain unbroken for too long. Believe me when I say, a bit grandiloquent as it may sound: freedom is better, under any and all circumstances. It's as uncomplicated as that.

Nominating the universally loathed pedophile and totally incompetent blowhard for the AG was the first sign of Trump's seriously overestimating the scope of his political mandate. Gaetz goes down in flames, withdrawing from consideration -- Trump's first defeat as president-elect. More will follow.

1000 days ago Russia launched its unconscionable, criminal, lawless, entirely unprovoked war of aggression against Ukraine. The sole reason for unleashing it was the increasingly deranged Putin's messianic desire to demolish the Ukrainian state and annihilate the very Ukrainian ethnic identity.

It would seem self-evident that if you can't release a House Ethics report for public consumption on the findings about Matt Gaetz's activities, he can't be the US Attorney General.

If only I could persuade that boy who still, incredibly, re-inhabits me from time to time -- more out of a mix of pity and curiosity than anything else -- to be the author of my stories, how infinitely better his writing would've been than anything I ever could hope to come up with.

Piet Mondrian. Windmill in the Evening. 1906

Claude Monet. Corner of the Apartment. 1875

René Magritte. The Telescope. 1963

The incoming president of the United States has paid hush money to a porn star. His nominee for the Secretary of Defense -- a FOX talk show host, all covered in Christian-Right tattoos -- has paid hush money to a woman who accused him of sexual harassment. Trash of a feather crawls together.

now you know www.kenyans.co.ke/news/106471-...

“One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time,” to quote Andre Gide.

Zelenskyy: "We are an independent country." Musk: "His sense of humor is amazing." Musk, a product of South African apartheid, should not be insulting any country, let alone Ukraine amidst the war criminally unleashed by Russia.

“…for we don’t exist, we get existed…” --Bernhard, The Loser

More than half of all adult Americans read below the equivalent of a sixth-grade level. And they vote.

James Baldwin, for LIFE Magazine, 1963

Trump's nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, in July, 2023: “COVID-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and Black people. The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese.” OK, it’s good to know I’m immune, even though I had it… twice. .

Jose Escofet. Basket of Lemons. 1992

A guy who funnelled thousands of dollars to teenage prostitutes through Venmo is Trump's pick for AG. Make sense. All those godly evangelicals supported a man who was found liable for sexual assault for president, and now they get Matt Gaetz.

Matt Gaetz for Attorney General? Too bad, Jeffrey Epstein no longer available.

Coming into the world next Spring/Summer.