Literary persuasion as narrative contamination

"Excuse me, but there's some PERSUASION in my story, can you please SEND IT BACK???"

Jul 19 • 

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New York City

I’m doing a reading on Saturday, July 26th at the Brooklyn Center for Theater Research with Matthew Gasda and Noah Kumin.

Jul 15 • 

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June 2025

Alan Rossi's 'Our Last Year' and the unyielding sincerity of /newwave/romanticism/

An under-appreciated gem that stands against a general climate of wretchedness

Jun 29 • 

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First Things first: an INCEL thinkpiece appears in First Things magazine

Shilling your way into literary credibility from the Amazon KDP gutter

Jun 22 • 

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May 2025

Podcast appearance - Contra with Pedro Gonzalez (May 2025)

Chatting with Pedro about literature, politics, and identity

May 18 • 

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Ross Barkan's 'Glass Century' and the agentic twins of protagonist & writer

human agency in both simulated and non-simulated forms

May 6 • 

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April 2025

/newwave/ review - Matthew Gasda's 'The Sleepers' and millennial goonerism as a terminal spiritual malady

I've got thoughts on this one.

Apr 20 • 

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Podcast appearance - Manifold (April 2025)

Talking literature with Steve Hsu

Apr 13 • 

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Partying is a form of literary hyperstition

Hyperstition, corporeality, and when the internet isn't enough

Apr 12 • 

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March 2025

novels should be beautiful objects

books as corporeal entities; design as an essential ingredient for the modern prose-based artisan

Mar 29 • 

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Podcast appearance - LEAFBOX (March 2025) - Diaspora musings

A more wide-ranging conversation about literary art, geopolitics, sino-accelerationism, and diasporic writing

Mar 22 • 

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Podcast appearance - Hacking State

Talking meaning in a post-human-agency world

Mar 8 • 

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