Books, art, music, movies
Small Rain, Cleanness, & What Belongs to You | 2025 PEN/Faulkner Award | 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.
the life behind novels & the writing in between, creative invitations & dog-eared pagesโ FIRST DRAFT aspires to be your mindful scroll