vessels

Letters about alienation, modern life, the Left, books, and whatever is bothering me.

Around and about songwriting and what causes it.

Writing through the end of it all — an attempt to make sense of this world, the zeitgeist, culture, whatever, as we move through it.

Dispatches from the author of The Idiot

Field notes from New York on poetry, geography, justice, and everyday life

A hub for like-minded souls striving to be their authentic, vulnerable, nuanced, and often messy selves.

How hair attracts meaning across art, culture and history for people with or without hair written by the decidedly hairy.

Liminal states are the in-between—in other words, transitions. As a Gen X empty nester, I think about this stuff a lot. Personal essays on culture and post-career midlife.

"The main reason I've come to enjoy having a mailbox" - A reader

No brand, no message. What’s left

Bi-weekly letters from a friend sketchbook-ing the intersection of living and creative practice.

a chronicle of enthusiasms, from writer Molly Wizenberg

a shapeshifting journal by Yrsa Daley-Ward

sitting on the floor at 3am at the party after everybody else has gone home.