Hammer & Jack

Tag: essays

  • january book roundup

    All We Can Do is Wait ⪼ Richard Lawson What a sweet little book! I picked it up because I follow Richard Lawson on Twitter, but I guess I wasn’t following him when it was released. Although the novel starts with a dramatic bridge collapse, most of what unfolds are the quotidian dramas of being…

  • A couple essays…

    1. Tom Bissell writes about being addicted to video games and cocaine. I’ve never tried cocaine. I wouldn’t, at this point in my life, dismiss the possibility entirely, however one of the things that goes through my mind when I think about it is that I am afraid that I would like it very much.…