The essays.

The list went out days before the event. My name was on it, and beside it, the pitch I had been building for weeks. That pitch had been through more versions…

Solitude is a laboratory built for creation. The load-bearing word is laboratory. Not solitude. A room where material is worked until it becomes something…

The mind does not hold finished things. It holds open loops open. That is the whole mechanism, and the whole cost is in the word open. A thing without an…