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everything else: walls, etc.

dear internet, in the house i grew up in, which is the house my father grew up in⁠—a house that grew with us, over the years sprouting a bedroom, an extra...

everything else: a damn fine cup of coffee

dear internet, this week, i'm thinking about: what an anti-racism reading list is for. publishing and 'comping white'—books are pitched, acquired and...

everything else: the middle distance

dear internet, i am trying to expand my worldview beyond its current scope: a phone screen, on which i tend to fictional cats, redecorate a fictional house,...

everything else: side b

dear internet, this week, i’m thinking about: cyclone amphan and the people it's affected. what a horrible, horrible time to have to face another form of...

everything else: miracles for breakfast

dear internet, i didn't write last friday, and this wednesday i have nothing new to say again, and so here's: a poem i love, elizabeth bishop's "a miracle...

everything else: in defense of

dear internet, an incomplete list of things that are good, actually: novels that many people like novels that many people dislike, but you personally like...

everything else: nostalgia edition

dear internet, my newsletter is a day late because it got flagged by tiny letter's automated system! i leave it to you to figure out which of these innocuous...

everything else: note from here (iv)

dear internet, today i don't know what to write, because i am resisting so much the personal essay of the present, only of course anything i write will feel...

everything else: fetch the bolt cutters

dear internet, this week, i’m thinking about: how even now i am so susceptible to influence; wondering if i should buy bananas so i can make banana bread, if...

everything else: a week of banana pancakes

dear internet, these last couple of weeks: i'm thinking about: is anyone thinking these days? i watched: the season premiere of killing eve. the series...

everything else: notes from here (iii)

dear internet, while the self-isolation goal is rear window grace kelly (devastatingly beautiful, impeccably dressed), i myself am solidly rear window jimmy...

everything else: the scream is coming from inside the house

dear internet, this week, i'm thinking about: ways to balance talking about what we're doing in this time, without making it look like we're all hyper-...

everything else: notes from here (ii)

dear internet, everyone’s hanging laundry. in the house opposite mine, a family plays catch indoors, in yellow light. next door a lady wearing plastic gloves...

everything else: an incomplete list

dear internet, this week, everyone knows what everyone's been thinking about. so instead, a list of things that have helped me think about something else:...

everything else: notes from here

dear internet, i've spent the last month or so standing in my balcony to look at the birds, but now i catch myself looking beyond, into the glass-doored...

everything else .. Issued 9pm.

February 24, 2020

dear internet, i am obsessed with the twitter account of singapore’s national environment agency. i love their fragmentary half-sentences, like some kind of...

everything else: testing, one, two

February 7, 2020

dear internet, every two years or so, i wake up one morning and think, oh, i should start writing. this has resulted, variously, in a livejournal from my...