The Dying Grove: A Novel Born from the Collision of Joyce and Mycorrhiza

Some books are written. Others are grown. “The Dying Grove” belongs to the second category, and that distinction is not metaphor but method. This novel, the first in a new series called Fractional Fiction, emerged from an experiment in literary hybridization: what happens when you take the formal architecture of modernist masters and seed it with contemporary scientific research? The result is something that belongs fully to neither tradition but could not exist without both.

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Rockaway Brewing Company Street Art

Today, I was walking in Long Island City and came across this beautiful street art mural found on the wall of the Rockaway Brewing Company!  Take a look at the video after the break.

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My City for a Tree

Urban sprawl happens when concrete overtakes the prairies and skyscrapers become the trees.  Monuments replace nature.  Spirit is overridden by fantasy — and we’re all the worse for the loss of the natural progression of nature around us.

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