What gives me the right to be here, alive and making art, while they are not?

“The best way to beat your enemy is to learn their language.”

I would like us to look up to the world, not down on it.

There’s so much love and kindness and goodness.

After I paid the ransom, I delivered my best seventeen-year-old lecture on ethics.

April Gatherings with Junction Reads, Speech Dries Here on the Tongue, I've Been Meaning to Ask You, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Eric Topol and more.

SMLTA Literary Amplifier | April 14-20, 2025

I've been meaning to ask you

Didn’t you work too hard on this book to leave its success in the hand of a random subjective jury or a fickle industry?

with Khashayar “Kess” Mohammadi, Natalie Lim, and Kirby