This Week's Writing 8/1/26

A new chapbook by me!

Aug 01, 2026

∙ Paid

white floof sitting up in front of white door; looking over her shoulder

Like the subhead says, I have a new chapbook out this week! It’s called Summaries Are Positive On Some Level from sider0xylon press. Here’s a sample:

1.
Mom’s diet
turned on my famine genes
and set a timer
when I went to the bathroom. My
chromosomes, sensing
their own intuitive
repulsion were being
knit in her
womb called the
adaptive unconscious.

And here is a list of my source material:

Gary John Bishop, Unf*ck Yourself: Get Out of Your Head and Into Your Life, HarperCollins, 2017.
John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, David Fickling Books, 2006.
Camille Fournier, The Manager’s Path: A Guide to Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change, O’Reilly Media, 2017.
Thomas Friedman, Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist’s Guide to Thriving in the Age of Acceleration, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.
Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, Back Bay Books, 2005.
Sara Gottfried, Younger: A Breakthrough Program to Reset Your Genes, Reverse Aging, and Turn Back the Clock Ten Years, Ebury Publishing, 2017.
Tim LeHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, Left Behind: A Novel of the Earth’s Last Days, Tyndale House Publishers, 1995.
Ashlee Vance, Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future, HarperCollins, 2015.
J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture In Crisis, Harper Press, 2016.
Marianne Williamson, A Course in Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever, Hay House, 2010.

It’s $10; there are only 50 copies, so get them quick! Don’t everyone push at once!

Okay, here’s what else I published this week.