Table of Contents

New short story: “Swim, Swam, Swum” in BULL

An old interview with Michael Martone, 2023-10-15

Redundancy Logistics, 2023-10-06

Author profiles are bunk, 2023-09-17

New York Review of Book Design, 2023-09-03

Notes on ‘Directions to Myself,’ 2023-08-14

All houses are haunted, 2023-07-31

Thick in Orlando, 2023-07-16

All plots move toward adultery, 2023-03-14

On giving up, 2023-02-25

An old interview with Charles D’Ambrosio, 2022-12-18

How to gig outside, 2022-11-01

What I can’t live without, 2022-09-13

20 years of short stories, 2022-06-22

JPH, R.I.P., 2022-02-25

Yet Another John, 2022-02-13

Covid Resolutions, 2022-01-11

Dare to be Optimistic, 2021-11-15

Place of Safety, 2021-10-26

Time Hex, 2021-10-11

iPhone Applause, 2021-06-15

Roth in Rehab, 2021-05-03

Shopping like the angels, 2021-04-20

One Stab Down, 2021-04-06

Canon Fodder, 2021-03-24

Footnote, 2021-03-12

Once there was a city, 2021-03-08

Welcome to the Second World, 2021-02-21

Clothes Mask the Man, 2021-02-07

Learning from TikTok, 2021-01-24

Trump Kitsch Putsch, 2021-01-10

Review of ‘Lincoln in the Bardo,’ 2021-01-03

Review of ‘Be & Me,’ 2020-12-27

Grudge Dynasty, 2020-12-23

Blogroll Thanksgiving, 2020-11-29

Seasonal Affective Disorder, 2020-11-03

The Crying of Lot QAnon, 2020-10-30

Institutions and the Individual, 2020-08-29

Writers are Depressing, 2020-06-11

These Little Town Blues, 2020-04-06

Who’s Zoomin’ Who, 2020-03-27

Disaster Reading, 2020-03-24

Notes on ‘Moonglow,’ 2020-01-14

Heat Passes, 2019-10-07

Notes on Didion’s Notes, 2019-09-08

Note on Richard Ford, 2018-03-16

Notes in the Bardo, 2017-03-17

Note on Advent, 2016-12-19

Bass guitars & Barry Hannah, 2016-06-14

Mirrors, carried down roads, 2016-01-15

Note on Marilynne Robinson, 2016-01-08

Can walk, chew gum, 2016-01-06

Beefier hands and more of them, 2015-07-08

Review of Adam Begley’s ‘Updike,’ 2015-07-01

Note on Paragraphs, 2015-06-24

Note on Streaming, 2015-06-09

Note on Bridges, 2015-05-27

My review of ‘The Sellout,’ 2015-05-01

Ozick across the moat, 2015-04-30

Note on AWP, 2015-04-09

Rhetorical Question, 2015-03-30

Coincidental Religion, 2015-03-29

Strangers in the night: A note on agents, 2015-03-25

J.C. Hallman on Nicholson Baker, 2015-03-17

$3 cover charge, 2015-02-26

Dear Diary: A Note, 2015-02-19

Crack that whip, 2015-02-10

The New York Review of Notebooks, 2015-01-30

OMG!, 2015-01-07

New Year, New Review, 2015-01-02

Notes on Notes, 2014-12-16

Review of ‘Loitering,’ 2014-12-15

Kitsch Revelation, Pt. 1, 2014-12-02

Notes on the new DFW reader, 2014-11-22

Time of your life, 2014-11-05

Underworld’ on the iPhone, 2014-10-23

D.G. Myers, RIP, 2014-09-29

Mechanisms of prestige, 2014-09-26

Notes on ‘The Free and the Antifree,’ 2014-08-24

Notes on ‘Bluets,’ 2014-08-01

Notes on blogging from a non-blogger, 2014-07-04

And now this, 2013-12-06

My Life as a Mannequin, 2013-08-01

A re-design is afoot, 2013-05-25

Favorite 2012 Books, 1/4 Year Late, 2013-03-22

Notes on ‘We Looked Like Giants,’ 2012-12-19

On the radio, 2012-12-16

A note from the official interlocutor, 2012-09-11

Notes on Notes, 2012-05-24

All the Rage, 2012-01-01

The Portable Son comes out today, 2011-11-30

Notes on Notes on Sontag, 2011-07-28

Losing Faith with Fiction, 2011-07-22

MFA = Mother of Failed Arguments, 2011-07-11

Fighting Words, 2011-05-26

Reptile Time, 2011-01-18