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Who is Maud Dixon?
March 1, 2021
I think it’s fair to say that this newsletter has gone defunct. In fact, some of you have been subscribed to it for the better part of a year without getting...
Seventh Inning Stretch
May 28, 2020
On Monday evening at 7pm, I'll be in conversation with Emily Nemens, the editor of the Paris Review, in a virtual event hosted by the independent bookstore...
The Amphibium, pt. 13
May 4, 2020
This is Vol. 13 of the Amphibium. In other news Some non-novel writing to plug: an essay about Soren Kierkegaard–more specifically, about a biography of...
The Amphibium, pt. 12
April 6, 2020
The Return of the Amphibium (?) I started this newsletter a little over a year ago with the stated aim of creating an outlet to share some of my own work and...
The Amphibium, pt. 11
December 11, 2019
This is Vol. 11 of the Amphibium. The aunt holds court A few numbers ago, I mentioned that I'd been reading Anniversaries, a 1,600-page novel by the German...
The Amphibium, pt. 10
November 1, 2019
This is Vol. 10 of the Amphibium. Foundress of nothing Today is All Saints' Day in the Catholic Church. Like it says on the tin, it is the feast day for all...
The Amphibium, pt. 9
October 10, 2019
This is Vol. 9 of the Amphibium. People Make Choices Today the 2018 and 2019 Nobel Prizes for Literature were given out, to Olga Tokarczuk and Peter Handke,...
The Amphibium, pt. 8
September 26, 2019
This is Vol. 8 of the Amphibium. Attentive readers will notice that it’s been a while. In retrospect, I’ve decided to say that this newsletter took a summer...
The Amphibium, pt. 7
June 14, 2019
This is Vol. 7 of the Amphibium. One of these things, maybe. In my last missive, I wrote a bit about what I called a “crisis of confidence” among fiction...
The Amphibium, pt. 6
May 17, 2019
This is Vol. 6 of the Amphibium. Everything That Rises We went down to Savannah for a wedding over Easter weekend, and while we were there I visited the...
The Amphibium, pt. 5
April 17, 2019
This is Vol. 5 of the Amphibium. Winning the Peace Those of you who have been reading this newsletter since all the way back in the middle of last month will...
The Amphibium, pt. 4
April 4, 2019
This is Vol. 4 of the Amphibium. Books Do Furnish a Life The fine literary magazine Image Journal is celebrating its 30th anniversary, and they asked me and...
The Amphibium, pt. 3
March 21, 2019
The Amphibium, pt. 3 This is Vol. 3 of the Amphibium. A little more context The April issue of Harper’s Magazine has an essay by Christian Lorentzen about...
The Amphibium, pt. 2
March 8, 2019
This is Vol. 2 of the Amphibium, and I'm already a little behind. Stitching and unstitching The current issue of Harper's Magazine includes my review of the...
The Amphibium, pt. 1
February 21, 2019
Hello, and welcome to Vol. 1 of the Amphibium. Let's get started. Fifty Shades I’m in the current issue of the New York Review of Books talking about John...