Enneagrams Could Have Stopped the Vietnam War
Kelly Clarkson, Personality Types, and David Halberstam’s “The Best and The Brightest”
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Welcome to noticements, where I write about moments worth noticing. Topics include life, literature, music, and more. If you'd like to read more of my work, pick up my novel, "The Unmapping."
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Musicals are the highest art and you should train yourself to love them if you don’t
On My Fair Lady, Les Misérables, "gateway musicals" and their aesthetics
Un-Shackletoned: How not to write a metaphor
Thoughts on "The Serpent in the Grove" and running, Murakami, and more
Cheese at the Meat Raffle, Culture is Fake
Plus thoughts on Sibelius, John Wick Creator’s New Movie, and ‘How Language Began’
My belly button mole is a ghost named Boris
On Rachmaninoff, Russian literature, grief after grief, and time as energy
Is curiosity inborn? An investigation, a poem, an oil fire
And a one-sided discussion with George Saunders
Books Need DVD Extras
We should all be Tony Soprano
Structure of a Midwest Literary Scene
Secrets, parties, and Bon Iver
First Dates and the Scientific Method
Curiosity about curiosity
Jurassic Park Hates You and it Hates Me Too
On chaos theory, Jeff Goldblum, and anti-science science fiction
Bring Back Lisztomania
Not the Phoenix song