Annie Donya
This one's got a new podcast, a barking dog, some anhedonia, and a couple lovely Instax pix
Hitting The Links: 7/27/25
We've got lots of great links, plus my Citizen Dick moment at Dad's grave, my first podcast-foray in 4 weeks, that time I had a psychotic breakdown, a couple flexes, BIRDY! on patrol, and more
The Kindest Cut
We've got a new podcast coming next week, but this one's a got a great moment with Dad when I was a kid, some Instax, and more
Hitting The Links: 7/20/25
Lots of links, a weekend of impromptu deep reconnections, some BIRDY!, and more
Something Broken About You
This one's got a new monologue-podcast, some cute deer, an Instax, and why I'm going up to Readercon even though I don't have any guests lined up
Hitting The Links: 7/13/25
My father died on Thursday, so I wrote about that but I still also offer a bunch of links and a pic of Birdy, so.
Appointment in Hackensack
No new podcast, because my father's dying.
Hitting The Links: 7/6/25
We’ve got a bunch of links, some pix, & some reading selections, but also bad medical news that means I’m putting the podcast on hiatus.
Eugoogoolizer
This one's got my new podcast with Rachel Cockerell, a pre-eulogy for my still-inappropriate-after-all-these-years old man, a telling wine label, + some Instax & a sketch, & more
Hitting The Links: 6/29/25
We've got lots of great links, a near-forgotten connection, some meditation insights, and BIRDY!
Being Boring
This one's got my new podcast with Paul Karasik, a train trip through The Heat Dome, some thoughts on my book, and more
Hitting The Links: 6/22/25
Tons of great links, a little time in the Quiet Room, some new reading, an update on where I've been, progress on my book, and Birdy gets slatternly
Everything That Rises Must Converge
We've got a new podcast with Kate Maruyama, unexpected connections at a biotech conference, some new Instax, and a Flannery O'Connor moment
Hitting The Links: 6/15/25
We've got lots of great links for you to check out, my Yaddo-drop-in, forlorn Birdy, a power-lift flex, and more
Running Up That Hill
We've got a new podcast with David Denby, some art & some Instax, and my lobbying visit to DC
Hitting The Links: 6/8/25
We've got a TON of links, incl. the soullessness of biohacking & dark retreats, + a pod-session that brought me back to life, Birdy's sniffari, & more
Slow Progressors
This one's got ruminations on Edmund White's death, WTF's retirement, and my leukemia, along with my new ep. with Peter Stothard on Horace, + a little art
Hitting The Links: 6/1/25
This one's got a whole ton of links, + an oblique update on how I'm doing, a Hopper-esque photo of Birdy, a beautiful/sensual Rilke poem, and more
Shred Tear Fray
A new podcast with Cecile Wajsbrot on Time Passes & destruction, a Bill Cunningham moment, some sketches, Instax outtakes, and more
Hitting The Links: 5/25/25
This one's got a lot of great links, questions about identity & self, thoughts on the limits of planning, and old pinball machine, BIRDY!, and more
Sunny (with a Chance of Trees)
We've got a new podcast with Keiler Roberts, my close call, notes from Philadelphia, MOAR ART, and an adorable Instax
Hitting The Links: 5/18/25
This one’s got a ton of links, wedding pix, aporia and wound-it-forward, my longest run in 3+ years, moral ambition & (in)effective altruism, some Rilke, Barthes & Herzog, and more
Air Mail
New podcast with Peter Kuper, a productive transatlantic flight, new Instax & art, and more
Hitting The Links: 5/11/25
Lots of links, transcendence with Anselm Kiefer in Amsterdam, a run over The Swan, and maybe my last newsletter
Rotterdammerung
New episode with Vauhini Vara, new Instax pix, my biz-trip to Rotterdam, and flowers, bridges, self-loathing and a naked coffee machine
Hitting The Links: 5/4/25
Plenty of links, a visit to Joe Coleman's Carnival, maybe a new guest, more running, and BIRDY SIDE-EYE
Du mußt dein Leben ändern
A new podcast with Craig Thompson, a new translation of Rilke, some new Instax, and more
Hitting The Links: 4/27/25
Remembering Barry Malzberg, + a ton of links, Birdy on a cliff, my favorite Lucian Freud model, a Dior & I moment, what it's like to be a Photoshop doc, & more
Don't Look Back
A new show with Ari Richter, the tumult of my overnight trip to Boston/Burlington, some new Instax, I make for a pretty zombie-self, and more!
Hitting The Links: 4/20/25
Lots of links, finding art in a parking garage or two, new podcasts, the disease of writing, no-quit running, the seven faces of John O'Clocks, and more fragments of my dis-integrated self.
The Bird a Nest, the Spider a Web
This one's got TWO new podcasts, a busy day, an Instax rethink, the revised title of my book, & more
Hitting The Links: 4/13/25
Plenty of links to check out, + a new monologue, my Beckettian dad, the tease of running a marathon, BIRDY, & more!
Shadow Boxing
No new podcast, but yes new Pynchon novel, plus reflections at a cataract surgery, Experimental Humanities, & more!
Hitting The Links: 4/6/25
We've got lots of links, plus a missing podcast, some Heavy Work on my book, an orthogonal view of the world, some gorgeous BIRDY, and more
Technical Difficulties
A new podcast with Peter Trachtenberg, day-job issues that will affect all of you, some nice views, and the cage is a chair. It all makes sense in my head.
Hitting The Links: 3/30/25
This one's got a LOT of links, a listener's praise, my niece's wedding, the hyperactivity of Hans-Ulrich Obrist, why I keep doing this, Birdy on patrol, how to look good with a crappy head/chest cold, and more
Opening Day
This one's got a new podcast with David Shields, thoughts on Opening Day and old friends, a chatty Lyft, an Instax & some art
Hitting The Links: 3/23/25
This one's got lots of links, + My Trouble With Doors, more travel, a new mantra, where I put my keys, and more.
A Brand-New Life
You cannot start a brand-new life while participating in your own destruction
Hitting The Links: 3/16/25
We’ve got a ton of links, Charles Crumb’s Our Town moment, what we can love, my busy week, questions about Captain Ultra, and BIRDY! squinting for the camera
Hey Nineteen
This one's got a new ep. w/Elon Green, a bronze anniversary, an impulse book, a self-portrait, One More Goddamned writing project, & more
Hitting The Links: 3/9/25
This one's got an inscription to be remembered, a meditation on The Hanged Boy, a ton of great links, a new ep. feat. Vanda Krefft, an unhappy aussiedoodle, and more!
Reference Material For The Soul
This one's got a new podcast w/Vanda Krefft, a weird piece of art, an Instax Throwbax, a weird realization about my library/life, and of course: BIRDY
Hitting The Links: 3/2/25
This one's got a visit to the Uni-Mind, a ton of great links, a doggo-graduation, a doppelgänger or two, my very simple writing tip, & more!
Wheels Without Wheels
This one's got a new podcast w/Seth Lorinczi, my latest oncology check-in and A Moment in the parking lot, a little art, an Instax update, & more
Hitting The Links: 2/23/25
This one's got a ton of great links, + a 13th pod-iversary and an 88th birthday, the end of my Pessoa-reading, the invisible gift of a corpse-pose, & more
Astray
A new podcast about the Frankfurt School's roots in Naples, my swooniness over a chapter of Musil, some new Instax, a bad sketch, and BIRDY!
Hitting The Links: 2/16/25
A mind-map covers the world, an intern reads The Secret History, a bunch of links blow your mind, a back flexes, and we learn how to get nowhere
Winter-Wall
A new podcast with Jonathan Ames, some winter doldrums, an Instax outtake, & BIRDY!
Hitting The Links: 2/9/25
Would you give me the time of day if you knew how much time you had left? (+ a ton of great links, some reading, some workout & meditation stuff & more)