Musings from the Roost

7. Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (2025) (3/29/26) On October 25, 2023, the journalist and writer Omar ...

The other day I shared a multi-part list of essays from Summer Brennan's Substack "A Writer's Notebook" and her weeklong ...

Witchgrass Something comes into the world unwelcome calling disorder, disorder— If you hate me so much don’t bother to give me a name: do yo...

The other day an email appeared in my inbox heralding a weeklong event that I (sort of) participated in last year, and so I'm on the lis...

6. Zadie Smith, On Beauty (2005) (3/24/26) I enjoyed this book well enough. The writing itself is spectacular, and Smith has an amazing way ...

We took a walk this afternoon at one of our favorite dog-walk spots—only today, no dog. (Sad.) As we made our way back to the car we were wa...

I am (this is, I anticipate, going to be a bit of a disjointed rant) beside myself at the injustices of this country, this world, and the in...