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Facing My Own Mediocrity
Reflections on failed mastery and diversification
Oct 25, 2024
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Learning The Rhythm of Fatherhood | Odds, Ends & Marginalia #003
Notes on Fatherhood and Recent Reads
Jan 16
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The Lost Art of the Album | Odds, Ends & Marginalia #002
Carole King's "Tapestry" and Why Albums Used to Matter
Jan 9
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New Traditions & Danish Films | Odds, Ends & Marginalia #001
Reflections of New Year's Traditions, Mads Mikkelsen, and More
Jan 2
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2025 Recap & What's To Come
Reflections on the Past Year and What I'll Be Writing in 2026
Jan 1
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A Dark, Comic Portrait of Weimar Berlin
Boschwitz's Lost Classic and Its Riotous Caricature of Humanity's Flaws
Dec 17, 2025
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The 10 Greatest Books I Read All Year Long
Dec 12, 2025
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The Dizziness of Insignificance
On Melancholy and Mark Haber’s Intoxicating Novel "Reinhardt’s Garden"
Dec 5, 2025
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A Clearer, Kinder Schopenhauer
Reviewing Woods’ New Biography of The Great Pessimist
Nov 25, 2025
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The Ice That Consumes Us
On the Poetics, Violence, and Brutality of Anna Kavan's Haunting Novel
Nov 19, 2025
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A Literary Dissection of Grief
Review of 'Motherdying' by Michael Lentz
Nov 10, 2025
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Dostoevsky’s Demons in the Modern World
The Enduring Prevalence of Dostoevsky’s Darkest Ideas
Nov 7, 2025
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