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Episode 2 of The Fickle Human Radio: A Conversation with Storyteller, Sara Kimura

Recorded on April 11th, 2026

Episode 1 of The Fickle Human Radio: A Conversation with Minami, Tokyo's Beloved Bookstore Owner

Recorded on March 30th, 2026

Dispatches From the In-Between: Why I Started a Radio Show in Tokyo

I've been keeping a secret from all of you...

an experiment for thought daughters: how to seed a new world

A fortnight ago, I found myself drowning in a litany of rituals, each one promising boundless blessings and transformations of the transcendental kind.

an experiment for thought daughters: how to bend time

When I find myself inconvenienced by the sequential ordering of time, I remind myself that that is only one way of categorising the felt-experience of aliveness.

a scratchy, static-y voice memo

Listen now | "I've struggled, especially as I've gotten older, to live with levity."

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the only time i miss drinking & smoking is when i need to write

a piece on boredom

after ten years of drinking, i stopped

on what sobriety gave me, and what it took away

a poem, inspired by Ian McEwan

ian said, make something and die.

100 artist dates for you and your spirit

inspired by Julia Cameron's artist date ("a once-weekly, festive, solo expedition to explore something that interests you")