I dream you, peace.

I believe you, dream.

Dan Shurley

Welcome to the place I am building in writing. My fiction, poetry, and criticism have been featured in Granta, Zyzzyva, BOMB, the TLS, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and 3:AM Magazine. I review new books in translation for Asymptote. My writing on Indigenous cultural erasure in Pennsylvania has been cited by the American Library Association. I am forever working on a novel. It is almost finished. Below is a selection of my creative work and recent thinking on Hanshan, Roberto Bolaño’s library, Cesar Vallejo’s Trilce, and Afro-Brazilian short fiction, among other subjects. Do not hesitate to get in touch.

Work

Fiction

I’ve Been Away for a While – Granta

Criticism

Cold Mountain Zen by Hanshan – Asymptote

The Savage Library of Roberto Bolaño by Benjamin Loy – Asymptote

Trilce by César Vallejo – Asymptote

Applause for a Cloud by Sayumi Kamakura – Asymptote

The Mountains of Kong by Dag Straumsvåg – Asymptote

Contemporary Afro-Brazilian Short Fiction, edited by Ana Cláudia Suriani da Silva et al. – Asymptote

Water Statues by Fleur Jaeggy – The Times Literary Supplement

The Camera Obscura of Gerald Murnane – 3:AM Magazine

Soviet Texts by Dmitri Prigov – Asymptote

Novel 11, Book 18 by Dag Solstad – Los Angeles Review of Books

Berg by Ann Quin – BOMB

Essay

Philadelphia’s Forgotten Forbears: How Pennsylvania Erased the Lenape from Local History – Hidden City

Poetry

Get Rhythm – Zyzzyva

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