Bookworm. Gameologist. Jazz pianist. Writer. Partner of Dr. Melissa Marver.
Covid and biosphere collapse conscious.
He/Him.
PFP Alt: detail from "Garden of Earthly Delights" in which a bird is dangling a berry over small humans with their mouths agape.
Paul Franz
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Could do with a little less Jay and a little more Silent Bob if you know what I mean.
Building our entire society around the personal automobile was a mistake, exhibit 9,000
It almost feels to me like the success of his work is an experiment in how bad fiction can be and still get a massive amount of attention. Like, there's no way a real editor really reads his prose and thinks it's in any way laudatory or worthwhile, right? I had 8th grader students who wrote better.
Saw a post going around about Andy Weir in which he says he is aggressively opposed to the idea of art including social commentary and all I can say is I am not surprised that the utter vapidness of his prose, the almost comical flatness of his characters, and the tedium of his plots is intentional.
A few specifics recs... but find what you love.
The poetry of @chenchenwrites.bsky.social
"Hello Sunshine" by @keezyyoung.bsky.social
The Gardener's Hand trilogy by @feliciadavin.com
Octavia Butler, Ursula Le Guin, N.K. Jemisin
Bhanu Kapil’s "The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers"
"Jane Eyre"
Indigo bunting!
What information does the torturer extract from a tortured metaphor?
