My kind of bourgeoisI wrote a novella trilogy that traces a family, the Piranesi, across a century. They describe themselves as bourgeois, by which they mean a…Feb 22Feb 22
HyperThey always note how tall I am. Okay, fine. In time, they’ll understand how I intend to bypass my bearded brothers and their front man…Feb 16Feb 16
AfternoonsMy solipsism. It preceded me like a flaming torch, cymbals and castanets, a sort of dance with life in its particular formFeb 14Feb 14
Charles Handy’s “portfolio work”The death in December of Charles Handy, whose The Age of Unreason provided the workplace “revolution” with one of its crucial texts…Jan 261Jan 261
On our organic dependencyI asked Anthropic’s Claude about the implications of the recent rezoning of the commercial corridor four blocks west of my house. Claude…Jan 22Jan 22
Poets & Models (& Archons)This is a collection of flash fiction, as these 15 brief stories were called by Clare Wigfall, the Berlin-based novelist and short-story…Dec 29, 2024Dec 29, 2024
In Castello di OtrantoIn Castello di Otranto picks up on a story idea considered by Tim, a character in Four Bayswater Stories. Like them, it consists of four…Dec 28, 2024Dec 28, 2024
Four Bayswater StoriesThese four linked stories trace two families, joined by marriage, from the early 1980s to the present, although the sequence jumps around…Dec 28, 2024Dec 28, 2024
Christmas Letter 2024If 2023 saw us do a good deal of traveling, 2024 was filled with family and friends visiting here, with one exception. That was the 40th…Dec 14, 20244Dec 14, 20244
