IN THE ABSENCE OF
Adam O'Fallon Pricewriteing, jokeing around
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The Rise of the Machines
Hello, and a quick preamble:
First of all, as implied by the fact of this email, I am relaunching IN THE ABSENCE OF, a Substack devoted mostly to matters of writing craft, that will come out once every three weeks on Friday. My hope is tha...
This Future Sucks
on Elections and "That Room"
One of the stories in Tobias Wolff’s great collection Our Story Begins is a fairly short piece called “That Room.” In it, the narrator recounts working with migrants on a farm in California the summer after gra...
Whatever it is, we're all in it
Upon taking a rake to the face
Life may as the saw says be full of surprises but some things happen exactly the way you imagine they will. Step on the upright tines of a rake and the long handle leaps to attention. Face forward, eyes down,...
Computer, Enhance!
Finding the signal in the noise, in music and writing
In my early thirties, as my writing career was taking root, I taught myself the rudiments of audio recording, for the purpose of documenting the rock songs I’d been writing without the...
Crossroads
A Key to All Dorkologies
Today I’m writing to you about Jonathan Franzen’s Crossroads, a novel that I read two months ago and that was published in 2021. This is not in any sense a timely essay, but that’s the thing about books: you read t...
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Author of 2020 Edgar Award Winner THE HOTEL NEVERSINK丨Stories in Harper's, The Paris Review, Granta, VICE, etc丨OBJECTS OF DESIRE forthcoming from Autumn House Press 10/6/26
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