Archive - personal canon

exercises in style: bill beckley's "cake story"

short fiction and photography inspired by 1970s conceptual art ✦ and how to get started with flash fiction!

Jul 25 •

everything i read in june 2025

5 books about design, grief, spirituality and history ✦ and recent films from China, Taiwan and Vietnam

Jul 2 •

June 2025

annie ernaux fixed my disintegrating attention span

the (almost) definitive ranking of Ernaux's books ✦ everything I read in March, April, and May 2025

Jun 22 •

May 2025

no one told me about proust

on poptimism and literary snobs ✦ and why taste is cultivated through love, not education

May 31 •

in defense of san francisco's art scene

it's actually very easy to solve alienation, anomie, and the loneliness epidemic…just fund the arts more (and go to events more) ✦

May 13 •

March 2025

everything i read in february 2025

3 novels and 2 films on love, despair, and loss ✦ and how to read Hannah Arendt for the first time

Mar 11 •

February 2025

everything i read in january 2025

4 books on religion, health, work, art ✦

Feb 8 •

January 2025

on copying, technique and taste ✦ plus 6 close readings of great essay intros

Jan 26 •

December 2024

November 2024

don't deceive yourself

on delusional fantasies and self-respect ✦ feat. Elsa Morante, Didion, Flaubert and Tolstoy

Nov 15, 2024 •

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