Thanks for an inspiring class today.

She showed us so many ways.

Now I love your mother too.

It’s so good!

Oh! I’m such a huge fan. Delighted you are too!

Woo hoo!

A new (very) short story.

“The traditional model of creation → completion has, in many cases, given way to something more fluid, recursive, and continuous. The endurance of the idea… its refusal to conclude… is the work itself. Social media provides a stage for this endlessness, allowing the performance to loop…loop…loop…”

Agnes Martin, untitled, 1960, ink on paper.

“I NO LONGER KNOW IF I EVER FALL ASLEEP. IF I DO, I remain outside of sleep itself, in that constantly moving ring of icy asteroids that circles the dark and immobile hollow of oblivion. It is as if I never enter that shadowy vacuum. I toss and turn, literally, in the zone around it”

César Aira

I leave a white and turbid wake; pale waters, paler cheeks, where’er I sail. The envious billows sidelong swell to whelm my track; let them; but first I pass.

Costco now has Novavax shots. There’s a location on East 117th Street—I am *there* as soon as I can make an appointment!

I’m finding it hard to feel buoyant and optimistic about writing this morning when things everywhere are so disastrous.

It seems we are foraging.

Today I looked up at one of those early October brilliant blue skies that grace New York.

One might say that I looked up from my phone, from this other kind of Bluesky which feeds me all the madness of the world.

This is the way.

I have too many books. Three more are on the way.

“Expect to see more dictatorships.”
Sean Ashton, Massive Massive Oil Slick.

A mysterious package from a friend, a strange book, the river, coffee, the rapture, a moon snail, what to suppose, expect, and avoid:

This week I tell a story of reading a book that cast an entangling spell.

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Robert Lax

And this matter of the commas.

- Renata Adler, PITCH DARK

I’ve been thinking of handwriting lately, especially as it might change the feeling of the internet.