Are We Outsourcing Curiosity?
There was a time when a question was a beginning — a wandering through uncertainty. Now we submit questions and receive answers. What happens to curiosity when we outsource the search?
Personal-Essay
The Anxiety of Influence, 2026 Edition
Harold Bloom argued that all writers live in dread of their predecessors. But what happens when the predecessor has read everything? A long essay on originality, voice, and what it now means to make something genuinely yours.
Why I Write — And Why You Should Too
A deep dive into the compulsion to write, drawing on Orwell, Didion, King, Morrison, Rilke, and decades of psychological research — and the case for why every human being, not just writers, should pick up the pen.