kneath dell

(a memento mori on my desk)

My children’s favorite Bob Dylan song: the apocalyptic “Ring Them Bells”

I’m enjoying the poignant Advent reflections through visual exegesis in this book.

I’m not at #sblaar this year, but I’m enjoying the essays in this volume this morning.

Go find it at the Fortress Press booth!

Here is Seth Meyers holding a doll that my wife made and sent to his PO Box for one of his writers, the comedian Amber Ruffin. He thought it was so lovely, but said that his PO Box was not for Amber Ruffin and that she should get her own.

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you've heard of Barbenheimer, but don't miss Francisteen this October

(from publishers weekly)

stunning portrayal of (post-)pandemic malaise, especially for those of us in our thirties

Weyes Blood - It's Not Just Me, It's Everybody
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3g7B...

A new novel by James McBride, which i found at BETWEEN THE LINES, the only English-language bookstore in Mérida, which will close permanently on Christmas Eve so that the owner can retire to Spain. The book arrived at her shop today, and she had put it on display only moments before i walked in.

here are some lyrics i wrote after a mass shooting, a little over a year ago.

Torrential downpour and an earthquake in Los Angeles today.

From my hotel window I’m watching the LA river, usually no more than a trickle in August, carry its excess into the Pacific Ocean.

so delighted for my first book, PURITY IN THE GOSPEL OF JOHN, to be out with T & T Clark.

here's to hoping that it will find some readers that it doesn't let down.

https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/purity-in-the-gospel-of-john-9780567708694/