"What if it were the other way around? What if the faculty of storytelling were not specifically human but rather the last remnant of our animal selves?"
- Amitav Ghosh, Gun Island

Potential title for a new book: Failure Finds its Happy End

“I asked how can you ever be sure
that what you write is really
any good at all and he said you can’t

you can’t you can never be sure
you die without knowing
whether anything you wrote was any good
if you have to be sure don’t write”

—W.S. Merwin, from “Berryman”

"That is the ultimate project for me—figuring out how language can perform this same kind of trick that music does."
- John Edgar Wideman

Rich and Poor was influenced by Occupy, which was happening around the time I started writing it. But, yes, more recently many people have written to me to say that the Luigi Mangione story reminds them of Rich and Poor. Which does make a certain aspect of it ahead of its time.

I've never had one of these before. Coming to a bookstore near you in May 2027.

"The concept of portraying evil and then destroying it - I know this is considered mainstream, but I think it is rotten. This idea that whenever something evil happens someone particular can be blamed and punished for it, in life and in politics is hopeless."
- Hayao Miyazaki

You can find some titles here: radicalcut.blogspot.com/2020/10/thre...

Polyamorous Love Song:
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On many occasions I have started writing a post about how I get depressed when I feel that not enough people read my books and every time I decide against posting it. Until now.

"Spring came closer, a work in progress…"
- Tove Jansson, The Woman Who Borrowed Memories

"An artist worth his salt is always falling out with the work long before it’s finished."
- Eddie Campbell

Just ten days left to apply for PME-ART’s first ever workshop-audition for our next project "How Does Change Happen?" The deadline to submit is midnight April 26, 2026: linktr.ee/pme.art

How insecurity leads to overcompensation.

"Well, Genet had a phrase that I repeat often: ‘Difficulty is an author’s respect for the reader’, or rather, making him or her think, collaborate – the work is incomplete without the reader’s input…"
- Juan Goytisolo

I’m thinking about to what degree it’s possible to push simultaneously from within and from outside the system.

Occupy set the sage for Bernie and Luigi. Bernie set the stage for Mamdani, who set the stage for waves of DSA candidates hopefully sweeping future politics. Luigi set the stage for warehouse fires plus the Molotov aimed at Altman's house. Actions lead to further actions down the line.

It takes money to make money. But it also takes money to lose money.

In my current in-progress trilogy (which I also seem to be calling my final trilogy): Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim, Desire Without Expectation and Faithful Unbeliever, all three books are based loosely around questions concerning the desire for utopia: radicalcut.blogspot.com/2020/10/thre...

If you kiss enough frogs, one of them might turn into a prince. However, I prefer frogs to princes.

Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim:
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"Along the lines of thinking the glass is half full or half empty, some people who believe they’re in danger of dying are in fact in danger of living."
– France Daigle, For Sure

Posting quotes on social media has really become my vocation.

As the work becomes more professional, something is gained and something is lost.

The bitten hand that feeds.

“In times of crisis, preaching reasonable things is to feel like losing your mind.”
- José Ortega y Gasset

In general, I am a reluctant participant in my own life.

"Back to the body as intelligence: the body is, after all, a living organism — with its own intention, separate from the parsed out, pored over intentions that one can say come from the mind."
- Dionne Brand, Theory

"Palestine will be decolonized, that's a fact that people should understand. [...] You can delay the disintegration of Israel, you can delay the decolonization of Palestine, but you won't succeed in stopping it."
– Ilan Pappé

“I must experience everything that is about to happen to me as fully as possible, I must experience it as some kind of joy. I can’t just let it all speed by without living it fully. I can’t let this life or this struggle happen without me.”
- Jacob Wren, Rich and Poor