07
Feb
Book report for January 2025
Letter No. 109: Includes spies, grifters, scenesters, and acts of literary mimesis.
2 min read
Dr Essai
Essayist, photographer, walker, ciotóg.
04
Feb
The sad and perplexing tale of Morgan Cornwell
Letter No. 108: Includes ancestry, battlefield surgery, and more mention of Indiana than customary.
6 min read
16
Jan
Best of the reading year 2024
Letter No. 107: Includes two reading lists, 11 books, and wistful remembrance of an assignment that never happened. And repetition of the word “verve.”
4 min read
14
Jan
The mystery in the beauty, the beauty in the mystery
Letter No. 106: Includes beach grass, Hebrew and ancient Greek, an unhelpful definition of fields, and vortex shedding.
5 min read
10
Dec
Book report for November 2024
Letter No. 105: Includes literary prepping for Antarctica, essayism, and some very weird physics.
2 min read
05
Dec
Can your AI chatbot flatter me as well as Perplexity?
Letter No. 104: Contains content generated by a codestack exhibiting fine taste in literature and some confusion as to who’s who.
5 min read
01
Dec
It takes 100,000 years to produce so much beauty
Letter No. 103: Includes some faux Latin, references to German philosophy, and a plethora of inadequate adjectives.
8 min read
15
Nov
Book report for October 2024
Letter No. 102: Murderous Vikings, the lowdown on notebooks, and stuffed parrots of disputed provenance.
2 min read
06
Nov
Now what.
Letter No. 101: This should be fun.
3 min read
03
Nov
My ears are ringing and let’s not even talk about my mind
Letter No. 100 (!): A rant from the brink of American political madness, or why can’t I find the mute button?
4 min read