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Winter should be shorter

“The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.” Ulysses by James Joyce

“The high railings of Prospect rippled past their gaze. Dark poplars, rare white forms. Far more frequent, white shapes thronged amid the trees, white forms and fragments streaming by mutely, sustaining vain gestures on the air.” James Joyce Ulysses

Morning walk

Vibe

🥰🥰🥰🥰. Thank you, Alex :)

“Night and snow and the threads of life for once seen as they are, in ropes like roots.” James Schuyler Empathy and New Year

Last four reads Light Years by James Salter A Philosophy of Walking by Frédéric Gros @versobooks.bsky.social Fourteen Ways of Looking by Erin Vincent @deepvellum.bsky.social Montaigne by Stefan Zweig @pushkinpress.com

Morning read

Finished my reading year. Really cool to finish Proust, get to Miss MaCintosh and to read so many talented writer friends and even to have some of them read in my living room. A hell of a lot to like here. On to a new year and Ulysses! (Pardon Our sad tree)

Last 2025 wrapped. Published a book at Barrelhouse, Ethan Hawke & Me, part memoir and part cultural criticism. Got some nice notes and kind words from folks and went on a couple of podcasts that I will link below. Cheers! www.barrelhousemag.com/books/ethan-...

Ashbery

Afternoon Art

Book mail The Delegation by @avnerlandes.bsky.social

Winter walk

To some it was like skating in summer. A small turret perched over the lake. It exploded. That’s the way I feel about people taking me out to some nice repast, and afterwards you go home and go over everything that was stated. I prefer flowers and breathing. Ashbery

Other 2025 wrapped Got a star from Kirkus for my essay collection, The Body Is a Temporary Gathering Place and an incredible review of it from Andrea Blanchi at Triquarterly.

“Among these low hillocks the years are scattered, piled up, confused with each other…Childhood was the day before yesterday; yesterday, just now, this minute, maintaining that infinitely diluted sorrow along the dark, cool forest paths.” Frédéric Gros

Winter walks

Book mail Can You Hear, Bird by John Ashbery Confessions by Saint Augustine

For, once you no longer expect anything from the world on these aimless and peaceful walks, that is when the world delivers itself to you. All then is bestowed as supplement Frédéric Gros

Rousseau from A Philosophy of walking by Frédéric Gros

Morning read Philosophy of Walking by Frédéric Gros

Daughter went to the local bookstore looking for a Christmas present and told them I liked Proust and short stories. They sent her sets with this. What do we think? Stream system by Gerald Murnane

Family walk

Happy Christmas etc

Happy holidays

Morning read Fourteen Ways of Looking By Erin Vincent

It was Troyat’s life of Tolstoy, a book like the Bible, so rich in events, in sorrow, in partings, so filled with struggle that strength welled up on every page. The chapters became one’s flesh, one’s own being” (Accurate) Light Years by James Salter

“It is unfortunate that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and trust yourself and always sends you away discontented and diffident, whereas opinionatedness and heedlessness fill their hosts with rejoicing and assurance” Montaigne on social media

Company

2025 fiction wrapped with 3 faves Geometry and Other Past Failures at New Letters The Testaments at Image Places I’ll Never See Again at The Forge Gravity’s Death Throes at Moon City Inside a Black Hole at Los Angeles Review My Doppelganger and I at Volume I Brooklyn

Solstice walk

Some story collections I loved this year

Off to a Christmas party but threw away my fun sweater

Morning stroll

Jim Harrison

CNF Wrapped & 3 faves Dutch Golden Age at Leon Liteary Review Internal Compass at BULL Dreams of Crows at Salamander Childhood Cranes at In Short Some Distance at Saranac Review Screen Time at Manifest Station Good New at Eclectica The Sadness of Certain Years at Under the Sun

Shocked, thrilled, all the things to find my book of stories on this long list. 😳

Finally, our noms for Best Microfiction! Congrats to @andrewbertaina.bsky.social and @neonpajamas.bsky.social

Another podcast I love is @shortstorytoday.bsky.social. Check out this episode with @ladiwoods.bsky.social, interviewed by @andrewbertaina.bsky.social!

Thrilled to get an acceptance from @LAReview for a long story, Rooming with God, which about, checks notes, having God as a roommate.

Thank you so much to @mitchnobis.bsky.social for these great questions!!!

Favorite poetry reads of 2025 Jim Harrison The Essential Poems Some Trees by John Ashbery

Feel like the lawyer in Hook before he goes back to Never Never land and rekindles his romance with Tinkerbell

Thrilled to be here :)

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