Fetterman v. Oz (And a Love Letter to a Conflicted Pennsylvania)![]()
Personal Essay - “Not everything stays the same, and, in many cases, it probably should not.” 11/1/2022
Personal Essay - “Not everything stays the same, and, in many cases, it probably should not.” 11/1/2022George Psalmanazar and the Extreme Art of Imposture![]()
Personal Essay - “Many of us also like impostors because, deep down, we understand that to exist only matter-of-factly, without fiction, would be intolerable.” 10/31/2022
Personal Essay - “Many of us also like impostors because, deep down, we understand that to exist only matter-of-factly, without fiction, would be intolerable.” 10/31/2022Review: “Homer: The Very Idea” by James I. Porter ![]()
Criticism - “But the price of that fame and quasi-divine status took its toll. ‘Immortality had its costs,’ Porter writes, ‘and Homer paid for it dearly.'” 10/24/2022
Criticism - “But the price of that fame and quasi-divine status took its toll. ‘Immortality had its costs,’ Porter writes, ‘and Homer paid for it dearly.'” 10/24/2022
Dimorphism![]()
Poetry - “And that we might as well stop killing one another,/because everyone who lived during the French Revolution is dead anyways.” 10/1/2022
Poetry - “And that we might as well stop killing one another,/because everyone who lived during the French Revolution is dead anyways.” 10/1/2022As the Leaves Begin to Change![]()
Poetry - “In that waltz, you find me now/Singing, dancing, with the moon” 9/25/2022
Poetry - “In that waltz, you find me now/Singing, dancing, with the moon” 9/25/2022Youth![]()
Poetry - “and Pastor speaks with God, while I/repent my youth that/like the flower which fades/has been my secret, golden calf.” 9/10/2022
Poetry - “and Pastor speaks with God, while I/repent my youth that/like the flower which fades/has been my secret, golden calf.” 9/10/2022Fly Fishing![]()
Poetry - “What does it bring to light?/What meaning is there to land?/Have you killed a bit of me? I doubt it.” 9/6/2022
Poetry - “What does it bring to light?/What meaning is there to land?/Have you killed a bit of me? I doubt it.” 9/6/2022Moving Clockwise around Easton County![]()
Fiction - “They’ve always been rivals with a town across the county line, a town of insulation and roofing makers. It’s a working-class rivalry, the authentic kind, one that lasts whatever color the collars become.” 9/5/2022
Fiction - “They’ve always been rivals with a town across the county line, a town of insulation and roofing makers. It’s a working-class rivalry, the authentic kind, one that lasts whatever color the collars become.” 9/5/2022Review: “Hannibal” by Philip Freeman ![]()
Criticism - “Freeman’s book, as the author acknowledges, is written as something of a eulogy to this great man of antiquity, who has captured imaginations for two millennia.” 9/4/2022
Criticism - “Freeman’s book, as the author acknowledges, is written as something of a eulogy to this great man of antiquity, who has captured imaginations for two millennia.” 9/4/2022Silver Lining![]()
Poetry - “The silver lining is/you won’t be catching planes/to drag yourself away” 8/29/2022
Poetry - “The silver lining is/you won’t be catching planes/to drag yourself away” 8/29/2022
Review: Eden Collinsworth’s “What the Ermine Saw”![]()
Criticism - “Almost all the key events of modern Europe were seen through the eyes of this painting, which Collinsworth vividly brings to life in her writing.” 8/8/2022
Criticism - “Almost all the key events of modern Europe were seen through the eyes of this painting, which Collinsworth vividly brings to life in her writing.” 8/8/2022Review: Riley Black’s “The Last Days of the Dinosaurs”![]()
Criticism - “This is a story about the meek inheriting the Earth.” 8/1/2022
Criticism - “This is a story about the meek inheriting the Earth.” 8/1/2022
