The Person I Keep Getting in My Own Way
There is a particular kind of heartbreak that comes from watching someone repeatedly destroy the very things they claim to want.…
Essays & Reflections
The Existential Echo
A space for thinking out loud about craft, character, and the questions that refuse to stay quiet.
Why Literary Fiction Still Matters
In a culture of speed and noise, the slow novel is an act of attention.…
The Terrible Beauty of Being Known
There is something profoundly contradictory about human nature.…
The Space Between People
Every relationship has a distance at its center.…
Sometimes the Wrong Turn Still Takes You Somewhere
I have made some stupid decisions.…
What We Know and What We Assume
There is a moment in almost every close relationship when you realize you have been operating on assumptions you never examined.…
What Literary Fiction Owes the Reader
There is a debate that resurfaces periodically in literary circles, usually framed as a tension between accessibility and ambition, between the writer's vision and the reader's experience.…
On Writing Characters Who Lie to Themselves
The most interesting liars in fiction are not the ones who deceive other people.…
The Weight of Unspoken Rooms
There is a particular kind of silence that accumulates in the spaces between people who once knew each other well.…
Why The Ledger Reads Like a Limited Series
Meiyen Kennedy on the dystopian novel built for the page — and why reviewers and filmmakers keep hearing a limited series in it.…