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Gian
This essay first appeared in Granta in spring 2025.
Gian
You were born in West Virginia in 1974. I was born in Virginia in 1983. You went to college in New Orleans, earning a degree in philosophy. I grew up in Central Flo...
GemStone
4843-word narrative essay on being addicted to GemStone III in middle school.
This essay first appeared in The Paris Review in Spring 2026.
My Experience Not Getting (Fully) Paid by an Art Gallery
In July 2025, Hengzhi Yang emailed me,
As the curator at 1969 Gallery, I’m putting together this show, “Parallax: Traversing Image and Text,” which is a survey of forms and visual languages on canvases.
He was nice, praising my writing...
Feral Pig Update (2)
My parents visited in January. My dad stayed for two weeks. My mom stayed for four weeks. They enjoyed feeding the pigs, especially my dad. He seemed obsessed with it, feeding them six to ten times a day, repeatedly boiling pasta.
He talke...
My Livestream
I did a livestream for my ~5,000-word essay “GemStone” that’s in the current issue of The Paris Review. I played GemStone IV and answered questions about reincarnation, my art, animal past lives, aphantasia, Nini, feral pigs, and lucid drea...
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