30 January 2026

Two via Victoria Spires



Victoria Chang


Linn Ullmann

18 January 2026

Pynchon

Eradicate Sampson? Rad for short.

All the moneyed of Berkshire County congregated in the great ballroom of Baffy's spun-sugar manor house; the party lasted three days and the countryside was visited by the drunken wanderings of Pierrots pale in the light of the moon, hideous Borneo apes toting jugs of the local white lightning, lush and cherry-lipped actresses imported from New York, in silk capes, red corsets, long hose; wild Indians, princes of the Renaissance, characters from Dickens, paisley bulls, bears with nosegays; allegorical garlanded girls named Free Enterprise, Progress, Enlightenment; a giant Maine lobster that never got to extend its claw to the candidate.

[...] past pier glasses that gave them back their images dark and faded, as if some part were being kept as the price of admission; through doorways where old velvet hung whose pile was worn away into maplike patterns, seas and land masses taught in no geography their schools knew [...]

— The Secret Integration, Slow Learner

Brandon Sheer

 


22 December 2025

That with each successive defeat there is an approach towards the final mutation, and that man only is in that he searches to be, plans to be, thumbing through words and modes of behavior and joy sprinkled with blood and other rhetorical pieces like this one. 

The Disorder of the Dining Table - Sarah Wigglesworth


 

10 December 2025

 J'ai besoin de m'encanailler un peu

07 December 2025

MoJT

 We see the subtlest of all forces obeying even the most capricious behests of the human mind.

12 November 2025

Mary Ann Samyn

God in the World 

Late afternoon, sleepy sky, the grief a click in the jaw,
a tremor along my eyelid. 

I’ll take my father back now. Everlasting love,
my hope and my fear. 

As he lay dying, his gaze fixed.
All he wanted was nothing we had to give. 

Minutes earlier, I had been doing some silly calculation
of my own happiness. 

Then, alone with body,
as with a piece of furniture, the cold oak that once lived. 

Poetry makes a public record, for someone’s sake.
I was dumb, before and after.

03 November 2025

Guillaume Apollinaire / Alice Notley

L'Adieu

J'ai cueilli ce brin de bruyère
L'automne est morte souviens-t'en
Nous ne nous verrons plus sur terre
Odeur du temps Brin de bruyère
Et souviens-toi que je t'attends

Goodbye

I picked this spray of heather
Autumn is dead remember
We won't ever again see each other on earth
Fragrance of time spray of heather
Remember I'm waiting for you

11 September 2025

01 September 2025

Shadowplaying


Debut novel, arriving spring 2027

Anselm Croteau wants solitude. Instead, he’s caught in the blood-soaked wake of the Moodys—murderous brothers bound by generational grudges—and the Baileys, fugitive sisters bent on revenge. Violence and vendettas collide in this noir tale of survival at the edge of the desolate Nevada desert.

 

16 August 2025

27 July 2025

Jadeite Cabbage

 Carved from a single piece of jade. Estimated to be worth upwards of $100 million.

24 July 2025

House of Fabergé Cigarette Case, 1890

 


House of Fabergé Perfume Bottle, 1890

Nephrite jade pickled cucumber, encrusted with a 72K gold ring, set with rose-cut diamonds.



18 April 2025

12 April 2025

24 February 2025

Nicola Samorì

 



The Column (Christ’s Ruff)

19 February 2025

07 February 2025

edges.

 

Inuit Knife w/ walrus ivory. Northern Canada, 1890.

Corsican Vendetta Knife. Che la mia ferita sia mortale: May my wound be fatal.

31 January 2025

Food in Cinema (that I would like to try)



Cactus Jack’s fast food, Terminator 2: Judgment Day


Clemanza’s meatballs, The Godfather


Poison mushrooms, Phantom Thread


Prison Italian dinner, Goodfellas


Ironing board grilled-cheese, Benny & Joon


Dystopian noodles, Blade Runner


Jack Rabbit Slim’s Durward Kirby burger with Martin & Lewis $5 shake, Pulp Fiction


Minnie’s Haberdashery beef stew, The H8ful Eight


Gas station barbecue, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre


Alfred’s Vichyssoise, Batman Returns


Pit-stop at Aunt Meg's, Twister