Archive - ashes and sparks

Hapax legomenon

On literary life and lives

Jul 22 •

ICYMI: On Dave Hickey and the "Gender of Works of Art"

A response to Daniel Oppenheimer, Blake Smith, and John Pistelli on Dave Hickey's The Invisible Dragon: Essays on Beauty and Other Matters, edited by…

Jul 14 •

Downwardly mobile

On the life and art of Osamu Dazai

Jul 8 •

Scribbling rivalry

On Louise Glück’s Marigold and Rose

Jul 2 •

June 2024

Down the darker and darker stairs

We were in Philadelphia—that is to say, in some unfamiliar city, but not one that was extremely foreign.

Jun 25 •

Do I wake or sleep?

Seeing plays vs watching movies

Jun 18 •

ashes and sparks

aphorisms and fragments

Jun 11 •

May 2024

May 28 •

Et in Academia ego?

A philosophy professor's maudlin defense of mourning

May 14 •

April 2024

Anchored in the bay where all men ride?

A response to Daniel Oppenheimer, Blake Smith, and John Pistelli on Dave Hickey's The Invisible Dragon: Essays on Beauty and Other Matters, edited by…

Apr 23 •

December 2023

An interesting observation by one of my parents—why do babies have trouble falling asleep, whereas non-human animals do not seem to have this…

Dec 29, 2023 •

October 2023

Invite your friends to read ashes and sparks

Thank you for reading ashes and sparks — your support allows me to keep doing this work. If you enjoy ashes and sparks, I would be immensely grateful if…

Oct 3, 2023 •

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