Letter No. 78: Includes nothing but thanks. Dr Essai is just back from a journey to the Path of Totality—

Letter No. 77: Includes smutty essayism and many colors. Dr Essai, with an eye on the beginning of American baseball

Letter No. 76: Includes someone eating an oyster, disaffected cave youth, and cogitation about color. The oldest known painters exhibited

Letter No. 75: Includes an awful lot of cocksure opinions, with no fallback plan. * There is no idea so good

Nothing remarkable about this past month’s reading, save for Rachel Kadish’s The Weight of Ink, a novel that I heartily recommend. What are you reading, Jogglers?

Because when I gaze through a scrim of vanished text in my own mind, I am all but helpless, I have to write something, and I’m happy to do so. From ink has come my life. I’ve added my few bits to the lattice of stories. And that feels like a fine life. That feels sufficient.

Letter No. 72: Includes evidence of time spent in coffeeshops and on city streets stalking readers of print. Dr Essai

Letter No. 71: You may need a parka. I no longer recall when we reached the decision. We probably just

Letter No. 70: Includes heavy presence of Hemingway, accessing wolf brains, and too many bland essays. All right then, 2024

Letter No. 69: Includes puzzled scientists, representations of poultry that may have been harmed, and maybe a bit of invention