What I’m doing now

This is a now page, last updated June 9, 2026.

Primarily reading (aiming for 150+ pages a day) with a focus on classic lit and on nonfiction, in particular history and biography. Getting back into writing short stories, both literary and sf&f. Hoping to blog more often. So very sick of AI and hoping sanity returns soon.

Currently reading

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

Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity (2025, nonfiction, 317 pages), by Paul Kingsnorth.
Days of Shattered Faith (2025, fantasy, 659 pages), by Adrian Tchaikovsky.
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation (2000, history, 418 pages), by Joseph J. Ellis.
Hitler (1973, biography, 1,500 pages), by Joachim C. Fest, tr. Richard and Clara Winston.
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1791, biography, 4,235 pages), by James Boswell, ed. George Birkbeck Hill.

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