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Foraging: Browsing the Backyard and Beyond

It’s funny when some weird hobby you were into as a kid and kind of forgot about can suddenly become a new trend, something you see…

Feb 29

Foraging: Browsing the Backyard and Beyond

Feb 29

Returning via Tome: Japan

Travel, even casual, just checking things out for fun travel, you know, tourism, stokes the imagination. It’s probably a cliche to say that…

Nov 29, 2023

The Shinobazu-no-ike Pond, filled with lotus leaves in Ueno Park obscured by rain and raindrops with a city skyline in the background.

Nov 29, 2023

Narrating the Strange: Kaidan of Yokai and Yurei in Japanese Folklore

While I majored in history, I’ve found that the less concrete narratives of myths, legends, old superstitions, tales of the paranormal, and…

Sep 20, 2023

blue porcelain statue of a kappa with cucumber offerings near the Kappabuchi pool in Tono, Iwate Prefecture, Japan

Sep 20, 2023

Anxiety of the Future #5: Trumpocalypse Part Two

*This is part two of this essay. For part one, go here.

Aug 16, 2023

Cover of Crudo: A Novel by Olivia Laing

Aug 16, 2023

Anxiety of the Future #4: Trumpocalypse Part One

Jul 31, 2023

Cover of the McSweeney’s book Future Dictionary of America

Jul 31, 2023

Comics Splurge: Yumi Sakugawa

In which I check out all the works by a cartoonist available at the library!

Jul 18, 2023

Cover of I Think I Am in Friend-Love With You by Yumi Sakugawa

Jul 18, 2023

Anxiety of the Future #3: Online Apocalypses

A few years ago now (probably more like ten, shit), I started working on a short story idea set in the near, climate-ravaged future, in…

Jun 29, 2023

Cover for Michael DeForge’s graphic novel Familiar Face

Jun 29, 2023

Dead Malls: Nostalgia in the Ruins

“This aching hunger for the past, nostalgia, is the defining emotion of our time.” Grafton Tanner, The Hours Have Lost Their Clock, 2021

Jun 20, 2023

Cover of Grafton Tanner’s The Hours Have Lost Their Clock

Jun 20, 2023

Against Fascism Part Four: Stochastic Terrorism

“Are you a fascist?” he asks himself rhetorically. “Yes,” he says in response, “for once the person that will be called a fascist, is an…

May 1, 2023

Cover for Bring the War Home by Kathleen Belew

May 1, 2023

Against Fascism Part Three: It Continues

It’s been a couple of years since I last discussed the topic of fascism and its resurgence in the United States and worldwide, but…

Mar 31, 2023

Against Fascism Part Three: It Continues

Mar 31, 2023

Harris Cameron

Harris Cameron

I'm a wandering librarian living in St. Paul. I enjoy tea, have an interest in writing, photography, and biking, and, of course, love books.

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