The Fictator

Something I learned in 2023, like really seriously learned it, was to slow down. My father said to me so many times when he was teaching me ...

Migraine is bad today, and I'm feeling vulnerable and foggy but also have the desire to create.  -- I've been thinking a lot about h...

I write this from Portland, Oregon, where the majority of my writing community lives. I was here for a trio of excellent events: a concert, ...

  Almost three years ago, in late 2020, I finished the final essay in a collection of them that I'd been working on since around 2015. I...

Today, my third book releases: Junk Film , the product of about five years of research and writing about bad movies. Aside from this obvious...

Half-jokingly, I've been calling 2022 my year of rest and relaxation. I spent a lot of days last year unable to get out of bed until aft...

In grad school, I elected to write a literature paper about Paul Auster's Leviathan . I came to class ready to discuss the novel, certai...