This Week's Writing 12/13/25
It’s Hanukkah! Almost! To celebrate! I’ve got a sale. It’s 40% off; $30/yr. Please consider supporting me if you value my writing so I can stagger through another year here. I hate to beg, but…that’s part of being a freelance writer now, I guess. So this is me begging. Feed the cats! Keep me scribbling!
Okay! Here’s what I published this week.
Politics
Trump’s racist hate is both a tactic and a goal. (Public Notice)
What we can learn from the right’s attack on toxic empathy. (Revealer)
Do scandals still matter? Sometimes! (Washington Monthly)
Ds need to stop talking like it’s 2024. (EIH)
An interview with Corinne Low about her book Having It All. (EIH)
Cultural Criticism
Richard Marsh’s The Beetle and why fascists always imagine themselves enslaved. (EIH)
Hedda is a beautiful house for misery. (Splice Today)
Dead Man’s Wire is cynical true crime exploitation, though not in a bad way. (Splice Today)
The Old Man milks gross out animation. (EIH)
Poetry
A poem about the coal slag heaps where I grew up in Wilkes-Barre. (Euonia Review)
A poem about shoes! (Route 7 Review)
Poem inspired by Richard Marsh’s The Beetle. (dadakuku)
The Beetle
The beetle?
The beetle.
The beetle?
The beetle.
The beetle?
The beetle.