Archive

Here is a(n incomplete) list of the books I have written about, with their corresponding blog post:

Aurora – Kim Stanley Robinson — Mirrorflaking the ocean’s steely surface
The Earth Moves – Dan Hofstadter — The vibe moves
The Information — James Gleick — The Punchline is Redundant
No One Is Talking About This — Patricia Lockwood — I hate the video-essay
A More Perfect Heaven — Dava Sobel — Retrograde Motion
Harrow — Joy Williams — Harrowing
The Glass Hotel — Emily St John Mandel — Counterlife
Leaving Isn’t The Hardest Thing — Lauren Hough — My attempt at a UK style diary column

Here are various subjects I have broached in some kind of essay format:

Recommendation algorithms and how we actually discover books — The Long Tail Twitches
Large Language Models, AI, and the future of writing — The Final Word
On learning and reading French, and discovering — Unfortunately, there was a book sale
On myself and Brandon Sanderson — Sanderson and I
On Great Books courses — Counterlife
On American Journalism
My attempt at a UK style diary column
On Marginalia
My attempt at a making a children’s book — Doodling Dan Doodle
Old New Yorkers

If you care to navigate through past posts according to the month and year when they were published:

Or according to the type of post: