“We recounted our dreams to each other, differently. In the same complicity, with very different affects. In the same innocence, with different blindnesses. ‘As in a dream,’ as we would say…” — Now reading: Hélène Cixous, Insister of Jacques Derrida

Excited to be in Seattle later this week. Been a while. If you're around Thursday evening, swing by Elliott Bay Book Co. and see me and Stacey Levine there? We'll be talking about our books.

reminder that minor literature[s] are open for submissions of fiction, essays and experimental texts throughout August ... details/link below👇

...sound of the water falling in the blue plastic basin was like silences of memory further quietened by the rust and wrack and ruin of chain-link fences swallowing up disintegrating full-service stations mulberry swelling up through cracks in the concrete tufts of dry grass...

off head top: D & G, Thousand Plateaus Bachelard, Poetics of Space Levinas, Otherwise Than Being Agamben, Homo Sacer Nancy, Being Singular Plural Spinoza, Ethics

clearly because scientists are so at home with ambiguity, indeterminacy, spontaneity - you all are so go-with-the-flow, it's humbling to hear you speak off the cuff - makes us reconsider our life choices

"...I’m trying to say culture, literature, and value are imaginary..."

something I wrote made the attribution [name of author] conceptually appropriate and not being anyone in particular felt right so I have rolled with it

am rereading Billy Budd Melville: In this matter of writing, resolve as one may to keep to the main road, some bypaths have an enticement not readily to be withstood. I am going to err into such a bypath. Me: here we go...

we already have an invidious, childish, asinine award system (for "artistic excellence" lmao) - why not let the contestants vie on a reality show or have minor and major tournaments like golf?

Seattleans: This is tomorrow.

My very West Coast “tour”, as it were. Hey Seattle is TONIGHT 7pm @ Elliott Bay Book Co. Given the book’s subject matter, SoCal should be happening, but no dice, so far. Will fate conspire to bring me to Nashville? Tuscaloosa?

"Fragments are the panned gold of the discontinuous. Whether glimpsed under the currents of prolonged historical disintegration or within the swell of semantic over-abundance, once sieved, they can be gathered, assembled." Tobias Ryan on my favorite book

TOTAL DESTRUCTION, a new book by John Trefry, coming from Index Press in December, with artwork by Dark Mesh and 𝖍𝖚𝖓𝖙.

Have an essay you think would be a good fit for Minor Literature[s]? Submissions are now open. Send something good. Something smart. Something strange.

doorstop on doorstep from 𝕴𝖓𝖘𝖎𝖉𝖊 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝕮𝖆𝖘𝖙𝖑𝖊

...Ștefănescu's work remains unmistakably lived.

no reason to teach Marx, Butler... "Deutsch" & "Penrose"