Plants of Los Angeles
Throughout the city, in private gardens, public patches of grass by the sidewalk, undeveloped hillsides, in parks and on trails, there are plants I’ve...
LA Street Care
A few years ago, I started volunteering with my neighborhood mutual aid organization, LA Street Care. Every Sunday, the group hands out meals, water, harm...
A list of Los Angeles cuisines I wish I could have introduced my dad to
Beef Bulgogi Shakshuka from Levant Bistro Hot stone bibimbap at BCD Tofu Cheese quesadillas at Guisados Stuffed baked potato street tacos The softserve ice...
Rain. Gaza. Alice.
Los Angeles is in the middle of a torrential rainstorm. We are supposedly receiving 25% of our necessary annual rainfall in just one weekend. I’m known for...
Ludo
2021 was a crummy year, personally. The second and third quarters of the year were marred by a gnarly situationship and its attendant mindfuckery that...
Pomegranate Season
Last week, I went to Skylight Books to hear Myriam Gurba read from her new book, Poppy State: A Labyrinth of Plants and a Story of Beginnings. I arrived too...
Spooky Season reads & watches
Poetry At Night by Lisa Ciccarello Salt is for Curing by Sonya Vatomsky Scarecrone by Melissa Broder Monsters I Have Been by Kenji C. Liu Fiction Pretty...
Lynda Barry's Monster Jam
Watching One Battle After Another the week of Assata Shakur's passing
Not a review of the film’s quality but a stream-of-consciousness list of my thoughts while watching Paul Thomas Anderson’s three hour action movie and all...
Collaging
Adelanto
We leave Los Angeles at 9am, four of us in the car. We have packed water bottles and granola bars, books and journals. We are preparing for long waits. We’ve...
Poetry doesn't stop a plane
This week’s newsletter is mostly a collection of excellent, thought-provoking articles about the current political moment. I will be back next week with more...
If you tolerate this
There’s a song lyric that’s been in my head for the last few days: “If you tolerate this, then your children will be next” by Welsh band Manic Street...
VCCA Week Two
VCCA
I’m at residency until September 7, so this week’s newsletter is a brief update. The grounds of Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. That’s the residence...
Residency
Home for the next two weeks This Sunday, I’m flying to Lynchburg, Virginia, for a two week writing residency at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. This...
Time to pre-order some books
I’m flying to Philadelphia to see my family today so this week’s newsletter is short. Some books to pre-order (but not from Amazon, because they are evil)!...
Go and get your rock
The first year of the pandemic had me thinking about time loop movies. The laziest google search tells me I wasn’t alone in this. Many of us, if we were...
July is my trash month
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