Hello, hello.
David Lynch is dead, and my Gen X heart is grieving the loss.
Below is a list of what I’ve written in the last few months, before and after the election. For earlier work, see Four Years of Links or, What I Did While Not on Vacation. And, of course, you can always peruse this website for most of my work over the years. The site serves as an archive of my writing: most writers don’t like showing their previous selves and much older work, but I think it’s important we all see and understand that becoming a writer is a multi-year process.
Many thanks to everyone who’s been sharing my work over the past few months. I’ve finally hit that groove of publishing at least one new piece on the site every week (sometimes more), and will continue to do that. Some works take longer than I think they will, like the trilogy on sexual harassment allegations (Alice Munro-Neil Gaiman-Brian Alvarez), but I’ll keep writing on current affairs.
I also appreciate those who deal with the hostile responses that sometimes crop up. A friend always posts links with the words: “Take what you want, leave the rest.” And when someone tried to attack me with a non sequitur, they simply asked for a link, read the article, disputed that someone’s point, and moved on. It’s very easy.
No one has to agree with everything I write, or even everything I write in the same work. “I agree on x, but I see y point” is an adult response. We can all read like adults, disagree, agree, do both, and move on. My best hope for my work (besides that it should garner me all the contracts) is that it generates productive conversations (and is properly cited everywhere).
My work is made possible by all kinds of support, and you can find different ways to do that here.
Here’s what I’ve written:
I appeared on Nathan J. Robinson’s Manatee Facts Podcast, episode 3 (one appears every decade or so). Do have a listen: it is a delight.
On the Psychic Terror of Raids
Class Shock: Affect, Mobility, and the Adjunct Crisis
Support Your Media, Or Watch It Die
On Sarah Jessica Parker and the Booker Prize
On Class, Identity, and the Working Class
On Trump, Immigration, and the Failure of the Left
On Giving, Money, and the Left
On Cicada Voters and the 2024 Election
Newspaper Endorsements Are Dinosaurs: Let Them Die
On Steven Salaita, Firings, and the Grace of Memory
And in case you missed it, here’s a list of what I wrote before September 2024:
Four Years of Links or, What I Did While Not on Vacation