The Journey to the Great American Novel, now on Substack from Beatinpaths.com. Essays, stories, and poetry written across all 50 states. On my quest to understand America as deeply as possible, I hitchhike and live in a school bus full of books.
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Independence
Along one of America’s most beautiful roads, Highway 395, is a small town called Independence. Independence is in the Eastern Sierra; just outside of town, where I camped last night as I head south for the winter, the high Sierra peaks rise...
Burning Man Poems (2026)
Seven new poems from this year’s Burn
This year, I went to Burning Man with a low-income Artist Ticket, and my gift to the Playa was poetry. I wrote some poems on my typewriter for strangers and friends; I also wrote a special one on the t...
Agápē Anger
I wrote this essay in 2019, while taking a class at Harvard about Martin Luther King Jr.
It makes a surprising argument: a certain form of truly moral anger, directed constructively at the reformation of the moral community, is actually a...
Beatin’ Paths (poem)
Ah, the end of September. September is one of my favorite months. If you live in a school bus, September is just about the best time to enjoy nature. Everything on the map is still beautiful, temperate, and open— the mountains, the coast, f...
I discovered something terrible
I discovered something terrible recently.
For the first time in forever, I opened my Spam mailbox on Gmail. It’s hidden from the main screen— I’d never thought to look.
Inside were a handful of email replies from you, my dear readers, to...
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