Lists

The last 50 books I’ve read as of July 1st 2025

  1. The Possession by Annie Ernaux
  2. The Rose by Ariana Reines
  3. Shame by Annie Ernaux
  4. Wave of Blood by Ariana Reines
  5. 10:04 by Ben Lerner
  6. The Cipher by Molly Brodak
  7. Man’s Search For Meaning by Viktor Frankl
  8. The Writing Life by Annie Dillard
  9. Solenoid by Mircea Cartarescu
  10. The Elementary Particles by Michel Houellebecq
  11. Bitter Water Opera by Nicolette Polek
  12. Already Dead by Denis Johnson
  13. And Yet by Jeff Alessandrelli
  14. The Burnout Society by Byung Chul-Han
  15. Story Genius by Lisa Cron
  16. On Being Blue by William H. Gass
  17. Plato’s Symposium
  18. The Four Loves by C.S. Lewis
  19. Inadvertent by Karl Ove Knausgaard
  20. O’ Pioneers! by Willa Cather
  21. The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin
  22. Pleasure Principle: Poems by Madeline Craven
  23. My Struggle: Book Two by Karl Ove Knausgaard
  24. Still Life With Oysters and Lemon by Mark Doty
  25. Dracula by Bram Stoker
  26. Leisure: The Basis of Culture by Josef Pieper
  27. South by Babak Lakghomi
  28. Alphabetical Diaries by Sheila Heti
  29. My Parents by Herve Guibert
  30. Finite and Infinite Games by James P. Carse
  31. Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice by J.F. Martel
  32. Pleasure Principle: Poems by Madeleine Cravens
  33. All Fours by Miranda July
  34. Eros the Bittersweet by Anne Carson
  35. The Map and the Territory by Michel Houellebecq
  36. Like Love: Essays and Conversations by Maggie Nelson
  37. Love in the Void by Simone Weil
  38. Territory of Light by Yuko Tsushima
  39. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
  40. The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm
  41. Molly by Blake Butler
  42. Suicide: An Anthology edited by Jon Lindsey
  43. The Disappearance of Rituals by Byung-Chul Han
  44. The Fifth Season by NK Jemisin
  45. Judas Goat: Poems by Gabrielle Bates
  46. My Struggle Book One by Karl Ove Knausgaard
  47. The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe
  48. At the Bottom of the River by Jamaica Kincaid
  49. Runaways: A Writer’s Dilemma by Michael J. Seidlinger
  50. The Burden of Joy by Lexi Kent-Monning

Selected Publications:

  • Notes of Ozone, Diagram, 2025
  • Review: We the Parasites, Heavy Feather Review, 2024
  • Interview, Jennifer Robin, On Other Worlds, Being A Conduit, and Writing As Much As Possible Before The Apocalypse, Write or Die Tribe
  • The Woman Who Feeds the Deer, JMWW Blog, 2020
  • Mugs, *82 Review, 2020
  • Vestibules, Little Fictions / Big Truths, 2019