Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
Wendell Berry
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Lit Youngstown First Wednesday Reader Series: November 4, 2026
Recent Writing
- Mixed Tape, Side 2: What Mom and Dad Won’t Tell You, Prince, the Pogues, and Sinéad O’Connor WillThere were three things that most occupied my thoughts after I put down my LEGOs and became a teenager: music, books, and girls (yes, in that order). In my mind, and at an early… Read more: Mixed Tape, Side 2: What Mom and Dad Won’t Tell You, Prince, the Pogues, and Sinéad O’Connor Will
- A little out of place, a little out of tune: on the passing of todd sniderAny kind of heaven every body doesn’t get in/Won’t seem like a heaven to me.—Todd Snider in “If Tomorrow Never Comes” The leaves are mostly off the trees now and the winter is approaching… Read more: A little out of place, a little out of tune: on the passing of todd snider
- Hillbilly Liminality, part 4: The Division Production Industryread Hillbilly Liminality, Part 1, Hillbilly Liminality, Part 2, and Hillbilly Liminality, Part 3 I live in an inner-ring suburb of a moderately-sized Midwestern city that was once much larger and once one of… Read more: Hillbilly Liminality, part 4: The Division Production Industry