self-becoming

A Bunch of Stuff I’ve Read

by Brian on 01-21-2009

in art

This may or may not be interesting to anyone (I’m assuming it’s not) but I feel like I need to write this to get a more coherent sense of the influences that shaped my thinking. Or maybe that’s not it — I don’t really know why I feel like I need to write this, I just [...]

After years failing to get engaged with any fiction, it was finally a TV series — The Wire — that made me enthusiastic enough about character and narrative to pick up a novel and actually read it all the way through. Then the natural author to go to was Richard Price, who wrote a handful of Wire episodes, and [...]

Résumé/Manifesto

by Brian on 09-10-2007

in general

[Originally written in March, 2007... It was the first complete & coherent thing I wrote outside of school. It's far from well-written, but the background behind everything I do is in here... somewhere (it demonstrates more than it articulates).] Contents: i. A Résumé, a story about itself, a creative consummation… ii. Common points of reference / [...]