Books, art, music, movies
Small Rain, Cleanness, & What Belongs to You. Essays in The New Yorker, Harperโs, LRB, etc. 2020 Guggenheim Fellow. Distinguished Writer in Residence at NYU.
Words. Words about words. Words about copyediting. The occasional cultural observation.
Because it's too hot to think in a tank. Unusual cultural musings by an award winning author and sometimes professor of history and of poetry. Ideas and the creative life. Books, art, tv, science, atheism, poetry, doubt etc.
The enthusiasms, musings, and observations of James K.A. Smith. Mostly books, music, and film. Expect no punditry here. Look elsewhere for outrage.
the life behind novels & the writing in between, creative invitations & dog-eared pagesโ FIRST DRAFT aspires to be your mindful scroll