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  • February 4, 2023

    Recent Writing: Early February 2023

    I’m very happy to have new writing in the New York Times Book Review – specifically, a look at three books set in New York City. That includes novels by Matthew Salesses and Dan Kois and a memoir by Patrick Bringley. Spoiler: I enjoyed and was impressed by all three. I have a pair of […]

    Writing
  • February 3, 2023

    Irish doom-folk? Yes, please.

    I’ve known Ned Raggett through music writing circles for many years now, and I’ve found his Patreon to be an invaluable source for new music recommendations. Today was (and still is, for the next few hours) a Bandcamp Friday, and one of Ned’s recommendations was the Irish group Lankum. They have a new album up […]

    music
    bandcamp, lankum, music
  • February 3, 2023

    Taught a course this week.

    This week I made my way to Frenchtown, NJ to teach a class at Frenchtown Bookshop. I’m eternally grateful to the store’s owner and the attendees for being understanding when I hit some apocalyptic traffic between Brooklyn and Frenchtown, and I had a fine time once I arrived. Frenchtown Bookshop also has a penchant for […]

    Books, Writing
    Books, bookstores, Writing
  • January 10, 2023

    New Year, New Interview

    Got to chat with the esteemed Jasmine Dreame Wagner for BOMB! I think it’s safe to say that we went down some fairly deep 90s-NYC wormholes over the course of the conversation. Shows I can definitely remember seeing at Coney Island High include Superdrag when they were touring for Regretfully Yours, what I believe was a […]

    Writing
  • December 30, 2022

    2022, revisited

    As I write this, there’s all of one day left in the year. And, as of a few hours ago, the last year-end piece I contributed to was published. So consider this a kind of omnibus of all four of them… At InsideHook…I wrote about ten books that had especially impressed me over the course […]

    Writing
  • December 27, 2022

    Patrick Leigh Fermor, But Occult

    “A few days after he had sent the Cuxa postcard, he read her some chapters from the autobiography of Michael Ashman, a minor travel writer who had walked across Europe in the late thirties…” The above passage comes up in the first third of M. John Harrison’s 1992 novel The Course of the Heart. I […]

    Books
  • December 26, 2022

    “Glass Onion,” Round 2

    Watched Rian Johnson’s latest film on the big screen solo last month, and watched it at my folks’ place this week while visiting. (I’d also watched Knives Out with them on a Jersey visit, so it seemed fitting.) Definitely a film that (for me, anyway) rewarded multiple viewings. And, good lord, Janelle Monáe’s work in […]

    Cinema
  • December 25, 2022

    HOLIDAY CUSTOMS OF NEW JERSEY TOWNS, EPISODE 14: Okcidenta

    Travel to the end of the interstate highway near the border of Monmouth and Ocean Counties and you’ll find what remains of the town of Okcidenta, founded in 1923 and later abandoned after the mayor and town council were implicated in a horse racing scandal. The town council numbered twenty-six residents in total; the town’s […]

    Fiction, Writing
  • December 24, 2022

    Two years ago I bought a domain

    I have a “professional” site up elsewhere. In the early days of the pandemic, I thought, What if I had another space somewhere? Somewhere for, shall we say, old-school blogging? And then pandemic-era depression set in and I did nothing else with this space for months. Scratch that, a year. Scratch that, two years. But […]

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