My growing disgust with the tech world's grotesque insistence on shoving LLM/GenAI down our throats finally reached a fever pitch last year, and I began divesting myself of all as many ties to those companies as I could. The worst offender in my own professional…
Continue reading...As I wrote at the end of last year, I think that celebrating the end of one year and the beginning of the next is best done by thinking about the moments of happiness that dotted what was, I think we can all agree, a…
Continue reading...The Exes, by Leodora Darlington. Releasing Feb 3 2026 from Dutton. I connected with Leodora Darlington a few months back through my translation work, and she recently asked me for a comment on her upcoming debut novel, The Exes. I was surprised and honored by…
Continue reading...The December sun was setting over the quiet inland sea as I walked alone along the river, slowly approaching the nearby mouth. I call it a river, but it’s more of a stream. Not even ten meters wide, a meter deep at most, rolling with…
Continue reading...In between all all various and sundry ways I find to use my time, I've recently been taken by the urge to write stories around pictures I've taken (in addition to the novel I'm still plugging away at. And the nonfiction book that still calls…
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