#memoir

Reason for Being in the World, Ch. 9, “Welträson,” Part III: Conclusion

May 17 •

Redux: Renowned Photographer Saves Obscure Writer’s Life in Parisian Café

Letter from Paris

May 10 •

Smoke (a form of memory)

from the archive

Apr 12 •

My Brilliant Thespian Career

Homo Vitruvius and American Samizdat serve as homes for my weekly creative writing and intellectual exploration.

Mar 29 •

Will Americans Fight to Save Democracy?

Agonies of the Agon

Mar 22 •

Crossing the Bridge

Reason for Being in the World, Ch. 9, Part II

Mar 16 •

Reason for Being in the World, Ch. 9

Feb 22 •

The American Brutalitarian Interregnum

Lets hope we're in it

Feb 15 •

Reason for Being in the World: "Becoming"

Chapter 1 of An Experiment in Intellectual and Spiritual Accounting

Feb 8 •

A Darkness Thus Unknowable

Reason for Being in The World, Chapter 9

Jan 25 •

American Samizdat: A Hard Look

Jan 11 •

A Death in Summer

a Reason for Being in the World "preliminary chapter"

Jan 4 •

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