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Poor Dignam!

David Lefkowitz

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I read six books in July. The first 20 days or so were spent on the first five, chipping away at big number six all the while. The last ten days were locked in on Tolstoy. Not a disappointment in the bunch — ’s The Walk Book was a particula...

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(This month, July 2026, marks three years of work on a novel. I finished the initial draft in November 2024, and managed two more complete, top-to-bottom rewrites by July ‘25. The past year has been spent whittling. My hope’s that in anothe...

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june reads

I read six books in June. I’m not the kind of person who has interesting, articulable thoughts about every book I read. I aspire to be, but I’m not. But I have enough, I think, to fill 17 syllables each.

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Summer Reading!

I’ve been out of school for three years now, and I haven’t had assigned “summer reading” in eight.1 But even so, there’s something special about reading this time of year. Maybe it’s the long days—Sleep-wise, I tend to be pretty synced-up w...

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A dispatch on an impending rebrand

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    Reads too much, runs too little, writes somewhere in between. Guitar boy in a band called Box Factory. Richmond, VA.

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