Tag: Grief and Memory
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Why I’m Releasing My Novel When It’s “Not Ready”
For the last few months, I’ve gone back and forth on whether I should release my upcoming novel, The Recursive Man, in its current form. Not because I don’t believe in the book. I do. Actually, I think it may be one of the most honest things I’ve ever made. But because I know people…
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The Recursive Man: How a Recursive Ghost Story Became a Novel About Grief, Memory, and Staying Alive
There are books that arrive fully formed. And then there are books like The Recursive Man — books that evolve like weather systems, mutate across drafts, absorb years of life, and slowly reveal what they were actually about long after you thought you understood them. This wasn’t supposed to happen the way it did. At…
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Fulcrum & Axis — Where the Work Stands
One of the strange things about building a long-term creative body of work is realizing that eventually the projects begin speaking to each other. At first, they feel disconnected:a memoir here,a horror screenplay there,a recursive literary experiment in another folder,a civic history project,a middle-grade camp novel,a political labor story,a fragmented notebook full of grief and…
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The Recursive Man, AI, and the Fear of Mirrors
Over the last few months, I’ve watched the internet turn the AI conversation into a war between extremes. Either: Either: Most of the conversation skips over the messy middle where real artists and real people actually live. As someone actively writing a novel while openly using AI in the process, I’ve found myself in a…
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