Archive - Silent Friends

June 2025

Rodrigo Fresán's Melvill

Monitor the situation, even if you'd prefer not to...

Jun 27 •

Ron Padgett's Pink Dust

[BONUS Letter] "I thought 2020 was going to be a great year, like perfect eyesight..."

Jun 24 •

Robert Bloch's Psycho

I was going to tell you about my hobbies...

Jun 20 •

Shelley's Frankenstein

Gothic Pride...

Jun 13 •

Re-reading Matthew Rohrer's The Others

[PAID content] Little room, enormous city...

Jun 10 •

László Krasznahorkai's War & War

The only inconstant of war is that it never changes...

Jun 6 •

May 2025

Susan Howe's Concordance

"Over here in America we / think we are free at first"...

May 30 •

W. G. Sebald's Vertigo

They're calling it chronic Stendhal syndrome...

May 18 •

Re-reading Melville's Moby-Dick

From a whale's penis to popery...

May 10 •

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