Selected Cyberwriting
2023
2022
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- The Last Estate, Dec 27 2022“It is a surrealist, maximalist interior tale fixated on the body, death, mites, mathematics, literature, organisms and orgasms, consciousness, non-being, the infinite, pain, our skin, memories.” A fabulist, absurdist, auto-fictional account of reading Solenoid by Mircea Cărtărescu, the Romanian literary sensation of absurdism, fabulist, mites, and auto-fiction. The novel was put out in English in 2023 by Deep Vellum, translated by Sean Cotter.
- The Last Estate, Oct 4 2022A look into a chess cheating scandal between world champion Magnus Carlson and the young, brash, American with twenty accents Hans Neiman. The scandal went viral because of internet jokes about anal beads used as a cheating device. I look at what it means when a game becomes solved by the machines, and if humans can still play them.
- The Last Estate, Jun 7 2022A review of the play Dime Square by Matthew Gasda. This reviews the play as literature and spectacle itself, and not the performance, which I have unfortunately not seen. This starts out with me dismissing the play and the scene before I read the play, and then reading the play and finding incredible work and a new favorite contemporary writer poking at the edges of our zeitgeist, toiling in the ditches of human frailty and our perpetual search for meaning.
- The Last Estate, May 5 2022I ask 27 authors their favorite LA Novel and out came a beautiful collection of quotes, thoughts, book recommendations from a fantastic set of writers.
- The Last Estate, Apr 12 2022A story about a family vacation and trying to buy weed in Jamaica.
- The Last Estate, Mar 15 2022I find chess in middle age and probe how it can sometimes alleviate depression.
- The Last Estate, Feb 24 2022A review of the poem length book, Liver Mush, from poet Graham Irvin, put out by Back Patio Press.
- The Last Estate, Jan 25 2022A look at the literary beef between Sean Thor Conroe and Sam Pink, through the frame of a famous rap beef and a much less famous rap beef where I compare my own giving a shit about this drama to a desire for readers and attention in the literary world. A piece that cost me a lot, but still feels authentic to me.