What I’m doing now

This is a now page, last updated July 20, 2026.

Primarily reading (aiming for 150+ pages a day) with a focus on classic lit and on nonfiction, in particular history and biography. Making occasional art.

Currently reading

In alphabetical order, and these are subject to change at any time as I add or abandon books (which happens often):

Biography: A Very Short Introduction (2009, nonfiction, 140 pages), by Hermione Lee.
The Canterbury Tales (c. 1400, translation published 1951, poetry, 519 pages), by Geoffrey Chaucer, translated by Nevill Coghill.
The Devil’s Doctor: Paracelsus and the World of Renaissance Magic and Science (2006, history, 554 pages), by Philip Ball.
Hitler (1973, biography, 1,500 pages), by Joachim C. Fest, translated by Richard and Clara Winston.
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1791, biography, 4,171 pages), by James Boswell, edited by George Birkbeck Hill.
Permutation City (1994, science fiction, 445 pages), by Greg Egan.

See the reading log for books I’ve finished reading.