ABOUT

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My dad gave me On the Road when I was 13. I read it devouringly. Since then, I’ve crafted a voice and writing style driven by rhythm and wildness and cinematic poise. Currently I'm working on a 10-part profile series which examines the countercultural figure of our era who have been largely ignored. For the first part, I wrote about Dave Rubin,    

Fiction is my greatest love, though. I recently finished a collection of short stories titled "Sleeping in Jeans,"  I’ve spent half my life in Europe and half my life in America, and those cultures come alive in the collection. The stories are character-driven, lively. They vary stylistically, but the animating idea is that life is wild and remarkable and occasionally destructive. The opening story, “Isidro, Our Friend,” draws on the concept of youth through the journey of a Spanish guard at a POW camp in the last days of the Spanish Civil War.

“The Loveable West” is about a group of teenagers living through the Troubles in Ireland, surrounded by chaos and death but still rebellious. Another story, “Visitations,” centers on a family who have become characters in a play they can’t get out of. In total, there are 28 stories, half of which are short, similar to those in Thomas Bernhard’s The Voice Imitator. The other stories are longform, with intricate plotlines woven into philosophic advancement and stylistic play. The collection as a whole contains a loose story arc as well, similar to The Things They Carried. 
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