Let me catch you up!


Sorry if you visited here recently and found it bereft of anything new. Substack had me swamped keeping up with revisions to two major works (Can't You Wait Until I'm Dead? and Murder of an Uncommon Man), sharing chapters of The Transformation of Jennie Heckenlaible with friends, and continuing a series of essays that began in 2015 (under the heading of On Reflection).

Come on over to Substack to find it all and subscribe (for free) to get a new essay every couple of weeks.

If you want to jump into one topic in particular, here's what you can find:

On Imagining 

Dear London 

On Leaving America 

On Becoming Vegan 

On Cats and Bats 

On Losing My Religion

On Book Bans and Reading Habits

On Finding Joy

On the Risks of Activism

On Trans Visibility in a Culture War

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