Vampires: Monsters, Immortality, and the Stories We Tell
From Dracula to Regis, Anne Rice to Fevre Dream: a Halloween journey through immortality, humanity, and the stories we tell about monsters.
Read the illustrated essay →Oak Grove JournalNotes from
Notes from
the writing life.
Behind-the-book inspirations, reading recommendations, and dispatches from the revision pile.
What I’m Reading
Notes on what I’m reading, revisiting, and thinking about.
Explore What I’m Reading →Field Notes
The real places, images, and odd discoveries that become imagined worlds.
Explore Field Notes →On the Shelf
Books I recommend—from old favorites to new discoveries.
Browse recommendations →At the Desk
Drafts, cuts, experiments, and dispatches from the revision pile.
Go to the desk →Stories from the Road
The not-so-true stories of the Bandaides of Midvale Central High.
Read the stories →The Dark Is Rising Sequence
Susan Cooper, ancient mythology, and the world beneath our own. An illustrated journey through five books and the folklore woven into them.
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