I haven't been marketing myself for a minute, but my collection of short stories is out from @PassagePress, link below - the cover is beautiful, and captures the tone of Buddhist-inflected Southern Gothic
Georgia, I’m honored to be your Republican nominee for the United States Senate.
Now it’s time to get to work, defeat Jon Ossoff, and take this seat back for the people of this state.
Hammer Down!
There is a Japanese aesthetic concept, wabi-sabi, of beautiful imperfection that inspires reflection on the transience of all things. So, think of purchases of factory seconded copies of my book from @PassagePress not as a discount, but as deepening the experience of my work.
This story was originally a novella that I tried to cram into my book from @PassagePress before it was rightly cut for space. I tightened it and it works now. It's about a man who missed the War, and a man who didn't, visiting Spain and getting lost. Link below. If you like it, buy the book.
@varadmehta That a GOP candidate has to carry at least one of the Midwest swing states, in addition to the Sun Belt, to win the Presidency in 2028 also seems lost among commentators who want a return to gentry-conservatism uber alles.
This story was originally a novella that I tried to cram into my book from @PassagePress before it was rightly cut for space. I tightened it and it works now. It's about a man who missed the War, and a man who didn't, visiting Spain and getting lost. Link below. If you like it, buy the book.
> only 12.3% reached a level of “eminence,” defined as “full professors…Fortune 500 execx … judges, lawyers, leaders in biomedicine, award-winning writers.” This means 88% never did.
GPT says this is 0.4% of adults
So gifted 'only' achieve it at 31x the base rate.
Poorface might be the phrase of the current American creative culture.
Every industry has the same endemic vibe the more you start to notice. Design, tech, music, even the influencers.
This was a much more interesting read than I expected
@christopherrufo I once met a group of American expats in Southeast Asia who all said they couldn't come back to the United States because they'd lose their ammahs. The Third World's a different place.
@IMAO_ Generic sci-fi/fantasy blockbuster with a meta/irony vibe that's gone stale and audiences have moved on from, with an underlying property nobody has a deep attachment to.
Trying to buy toothpaste on Amazon and suddenly having five books in my cart on the post-Civil War South is a bookworm's equivalent of an alcoholic binge.