Archive - The Strangest Times

A Scrapbook for Modern Times

Proizvol, Bernice King, and Winston Churchill

Jul 4 •

June 2025

Author’s Authority

"[W]riting means revealing oneself to excess .... This is why one can never be alone enough when one writes, why even night is not night enough.” …

Jun 1 •

May 2025

Beasts by Joyce Carol Oates

"This is not a confession. You will see, I have nothing to confess."

May 12 •

April 2025

Only Birds Can Make It over the Wall

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World and The City and Its Uncertain Walls are two loaves of the same brain.

Apr 27 •

If Colossal is offering a moral imperative, then we must corroborate that with a moral covenant.

Apr 14 •

March 2025

February 2025

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