Mar 184 min readGrief Makes Ghosts: Hauntology and The Last of Us Part II / Brandon NorthThis essay is found in full at my Substack, The Appreciator. This is the first section of it. It is very long and works best on Substack....
Mar 154 min readThe Woodshed: What We Talk About When We Talk About Writing / Dan RussellLast week, my good friend JD Clapp and I had a discussion on dialect. He asked if I would write about using it correctly, and I told him...
Jan 184 min readThrow off the Covers / Dan RussellIf you listened to episode one of my new podcast last week, you probably heard Sheldon Lee Compton and me discussing the many issues...
Jan 146 min readNight Tracks / Sheldon Lee ComptonSo, I stayed with my dad sometimes when I was young, maybe four or five. Probably more like four. My dad, this man I’ve spent years...