In the bookstore I work at, we sell copies of Infinite Jest. As someone who was once an English major, and who now works in a bookstore, I spend and have spent a lot of time reading people. Let me tell you something about the customer who comes in the store asking for a copy…

I like to sit on my windowsill, five stories up, with the window screen pushed open and my legs dangling out. I like to stare at the bikers riding by, the wasp lodging itself in between the bricks of my building. My favorite sight is the single brown backed bird on top of the big…

I’ve been thinking a lot about those videos of swimming instructors dropping babies in the pool and snapping at them until they float to the surface. Imagine the aggravating assault of being submerged in water, sounds around you muffled and drowned out by the blood pumping in your ears. And a spazzing adult human like…