If I’m the god of my characters, I hope I’m a flexible one.
For García Márquez, anecdotes always served as kernels of truth, experiences both whittled down to their most elemental and novelistic tales in need of being fleshed out.
The general proximity of Alex Israel’s SPF-18
The Bridge, The Pyramid and The Spire
Parable as architecture; construction as crime
Instead of writing about a heyday of a culture or a scene or a place, I wanted to land in the aftermath. I wanted to see what was going on those doldrums.
Democracy, Nature, Manifest Destiny
What makes Crane’s modernist epic so instructive for the twenty-first century is how it discovers ample room in nature for humanity’s freedom struggle.
A dialectical reflection on graduate education, and God
I knew that I was going to talk about abuse, I wanted to leave it on the page, action by action, without much reflection.
Full Stop Quarterly: Fractures
Beware what hasn’t already been fractured.
There is a direct link between listening and life, perceivable in its absence. What we cannot say and what we cannot hear matter.