// interview with carol van strum

It’s my great privilege to share an audio interview of Oregon environmental activist Carol van Strum by novelist, memoirist, and Continue reading →

// empty mirror & in bed

In keeping with the season of good news, I’m excited to share two more recent publications: four excerpts from California Continue reading →

// a season of good news

Portland, Oregon, offers the most dazzling spring of any I’ve experienced. It’s particularly welcome after the coldest February on record Continue reading →

// progress vs. despair

  As the year draws to a close, I’m struck by the marked—and somewhat encouraging—disconnect between top-down and grassroots forces Continue reading →

// bodies in thin air

  ICYMI, Greg and I published the sixth conversational essay in our occasional series for Berfrois—this time about valuing property Continue reading →

// ghost ship

  The Ghost Ship fire is almost too horrifying to contemplate. Multiple friends of friends are still among those unaccounted Continue reading →

// robots for the end of the world

Today in Berfrois: New adventures in subverting expository form—the fifth installment in my occasional conversational essay series with Gregory Giles Continue reading →

// reading & records

I’m reading on Friday 6/3 in San Francisco, and 20 Minute Loop is putting out a new LP.