If, 2024-11-01
More new music: “Slow Motion Ocean,” 2024-10-15
New music: Lost in the Memphissippi, 2024-09-03
Recycling myself: On David Rawlings and Gillian Welch, 2024-09-02
And now for something different, 2024-04-09
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