I wrote about the Norwegian novelist Vigdis Hjorth. And about repetition, plot ("trauma" or otherwise), and how the contemporary novel might rise to the challenges of love.

@_Zeets thanks for reading!

I wrote about ecoterror in fiction and film, from Edward Abbey to Rachel Kushner's latest. It's a wide-ranging piece—I'm trying to understand something about the gaps between environmental crisis, violence, and the way we depict both. Anyway, enjoy!

Thanks to @krevinlorenzo for always indispensable edits :)

For The Paris Review, I recommended Tracy Fuad's collection PORTAL. Everyday life and all its complications, both online and off, are tested and transformed by its language.

RT @msolis14: I spent a few days with Miranda July in March. We talked about her new book, relationships, and the ever-changing self. We al…

Some brief thoughts on one of my favorite Alice Notley poems, "The Prophet."

Historical fiction: there's a lot of it. When does it feel alive and when is it just something... musty? How does it help us think about the past and the present, and how they interlace? I tried to think about it

I wrote about Ben Lerner's poetry and persona: how the creation of a self in fiction changed – and expanded – his poems.

I wrote about distraction, Flaubert, rabbit holes, personal writing, illusory progress, etc.

I wrote about Peter Handke, and tried to push a little harder on the (more than incidental, I think) relationship between good writing and bad politics.

RT @thewiremagazine: Anger Rising: Ryan Meehan remembers Kenneth Anger Following Kenneth Anger's death on 11 May, Ryan Meehan explores the…

Wrote a bit about money in the novel and Hernan Diaz’s “Trust,” which brings ingenious form to an old (but elusive) subject

RT @msolis14: I wrote about "Mating" by Norman Rush and the novel's ardent fans

Wrote a little about the Talking Heads

I went to Santa Fe and had the great pleasure of interviewing N. Scott Momaday for The Paris Review.

(you can't really see the layout of the first one on a phone)

Thanks to @jesslbergman for great insights and for making it come together