Review: The People's Hospital (2023)
“[This book] is a love letter to the hospital, my hospital, where people find healthcare and revere it like treasure. It is also a letter to those sitting in...
Writing update (7.30.23)
A taut and tightly conceived newsletter.
Review: This is How You Lose the Time War (2019)
This is How You Lose the Time War gets praised for its use of language. “Poetic” and “lyrical” are thrown around a lot. But this is a book that unironically...
This is how you squander the multiverse
A critical review of This is How You Lose the Time War.
Review: Abolish the Family (2022)
“Abolish the family? You might as well abolish gravity or abolish god. So! The left is trying to take grandma away, now, and confiscate kids, and this is...
Review: Ducks (2022)
You know that cliched shit about how having a job is a source of dignity and working to support yourself and your family is virtuous? Well, this comic says...
Review: Down to the Bone (2022)
Of all the comics I’ve reviewed this week, Down to the Bone is the hardest to talk about. It’s a memoir about Pioli’s own experience with leukemia, and she...
Review: So Much For Love (2022)
French cartoonist Sophie Lambda’s memoir about an emotionally abusive relationship opens with a clever subversion of a typical cute rom-com. A reader...
Writing update (7.16.23)
Welcome, ye blighted souls.
Review: The Twittering Machine (2020)
“If we’ve found ourselves addicted to social media, in spite or because of its frequent nastiness, as I have, then there is something in us that is waiting...
Review: A Creature Wanting Form (2023)
“Whenever someone dies you want to touch someone that you know to orient yourself as still alive.” I never considered whether despair could be a literary...
The book people just want a nice place
Threads won't be it.
Review: nod away, vol. 1 (2016)
nod away, vol. 1 by Joshua Cotter is an enigmatic and dense science fiction narrative. The story is difficult to condense into a brief review, a task...
Writing update (7.2.23)
Living in the wreckage of a functional society.
The future is an unending summer
Will someone please let me out of this heat dome?
AI wants to suck the life out of fan fiction
Maybe don't let it.
This week's writing (6.16.23)
AI, comics, and an inconsequential mystery about Fort Worth.
Poetic brevity in the time of bullshit generators
A mild polemic on writing.