I dare you to find me an uglier book cover.

I think about this a lot.

I survive

Vertigo (1990), The Emigrants (1992), The Rings of Saturn (1995), Austerlitz (2001). And then he had a heart attack while driving.

huffpost.com/entry/land-ack…

feeling pretty somber graduating from med school because it means saying bye to my morning writing practice that I’ve kept since my MFA…I know patient care will give meaning to my days but I’ll still miss having so much free time with my words

Why has the bias against patients with IBS continued to be passed down from one generation of doctors to the next? aeon.co/essays/why-doc…

Yes yes yes

I reviewed Anna DeForest’s novel OUR LONG MARVELOUS DYING in Rain Taxi. It’s probably the best contemporary novel by a doctor I’ve read, about a palliative care fellow working through the pandemic. For fans of Teju Cole and Rachel Cusk. raintaxi.com/our-long-marve…

I have a poem out today in The Plentitudes Literary Journal about Ashbery’s questionable poem “On Autumn Lake.” Read it here: theplentitudes.com/piece/john-ash…

Super grateful for this nomination and for the editorial team at The Rumpus. I learned a lot from working with Kate Branca, and would encourage everyone to submit!

“Babies breathe on their own, but sometimes they stop breathing on their own, too.” newyorker.com/magazine/2025/…