Free Zine: How to Vote

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I’m So Tired

The fact is: I’m now getting 4-10 emails every day from people purporting to be enthusiastic about my work. They are not, on the whole, written by people.

For Peter

He taught me many truths, but there was one lie I carried for years after leaving his class.

2025 in Reading

“Left to its own devices, the path of reading strays all over the place.”

2024 in Reading

Everything I read in 2024, a whopping year late.

Making Nonfiction Comics Event in Ojai

Come celebrate the publication of “Making Nonfiction Comics,” a comprehensive illustrated guide for everyone who’s ever wanted to tell stories about the world around us in words and pictures.

Hyde and Eroticism

I wonder about this post-70s literary landscape: everything still reverberating with the energy of the 60s, the explosive visibility of sexuality in American youth culture, the rising tide of queer voices—but also the broader definition of eroticism.

Sing It Loud

Filter by: Less Danceable

Maximum Melville

Four days in the whale facts firehose.

Measurement/Metric

“It is maybe not functionally possible to design social networked technology geared towards listening.”