Fiction

Things I have learned while writing the novel

Things I have learned while writing the novel:
- Computers and Typewriters are best for wiritng dialogue, facilitating the quick pace of the talking.
- Hand-written is best for regular prose and longer drawn out philosophical passages. Typewriters are O.K. and computers shouild be avoided at all costs. This is the reason why the majority of academic [...]

Santiago Fragments

Here I am, in the fucking Southern Hemisphere,
on a mild winter night in June, just hoping to
hold on during the Earth’s rotation.

Freshman Year: Events I’d Rather Forget About

“I think about her at least seven hours a day, at the minimum,” he boasted.

New Yoker Fiction Roundup

– The Invasion From Outer Space — Steven Millhauser

– Meeting with Enrique Lihn — Roberto Bolano

— Al Roosten — George Saunders

– The Daughters of the Moon — Italo Calvino

— Clara — Roberto Bolano

– Wiggle Room — David Foster Wallace

Letter to an Anonymous Girl

And even if you were to say, “Chris, don’t talk to me
or ask out any other girl for five years, then we can
go out on a date.” — I would say yes in a heartbeat.