Category: Life
A review of Murgatroyd Monaghan’s ‘white spaces where we learn to breathe’
This is my review of Murgatroyd Monaghan’s ‘white spaces where we learn to breathe’, in advance of the book launch coming in Toronto in just ...
A Chunk of Ice Slips Down the Glacier to the Black Beach
Yes, a chunk of ice slips down the glacier to the black beach, as though these are common things. My previous post on Iceland. You ...
Borgarnes and the Settlement Centre
We never made it to Borgarnes and the Settlement Centre. What would have been the point? What’s interesting about Iceland is that it’s new. There ...
My First Creative Nonfiction Piece Published!
Thank you to The New Quarterly for publishing my piece ‘The Last Barrel’, the first creative nonfiction I’ve done! You can read it here. I ...
Colonize Me
The Mega Manila Urban Population is about 26 million people. It is one of the densest populations in the world, about five times more dense ...
I’m the Foreigner
It’s funny when you travel around the world and feel more at home than you do at home. Here, people smile and nod. They bring ...
The Global South
You won’t read this because time zones. I fail to sleep in Dubai. I thought you couldn’t drink here… I was wrong. The Global South. ...
Forgotten Songs of the 80s
The 80s were a strange decade. I think back on them as innocent and free, but that’s only because I wasn’t there. The 80s are ...
Novel Review: The Dime, by Mark Paxson
Mark Paxson is an independent self-published author, and, I might add, a champion of independent authors. Trent Lewin, on the other hand, is completely unpublished ...
Cloud Cuckoo Land (A. Doerr): A Review
What’s different about modern novels? We’re segmented into genres, commercial tracks that allow for reasonable market placement and expectation of returns. This is the way ...