a partial inventory of things overheard on the 6 train
Six months of transcribed fragments, half-conversations, and the one man who narrates his own commute out loud every single morning like a nature documentary.
volume 01
on marginalia and other ways of reading sideways
A study of the notes readers leave behind — in library books, in the endpapers of borrowed novels, in the margins of photocopied handouts nobody meant to keep. What the marginal note admits that the finished essay won't, and why the sidebar has always been where the real thinking happens.
read the volumenotes toward a theory of the junk drawer
Every kitchen has one. An attempt to classify its contents — the dead batteries, the single key, the rubber band ball — as a kind of unintentional archive of a household's small failures.
letters i wrote and did not send, 2019–2023
A selection, lightly edited for the version of myself that never got to be embarrassed by them.