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On Staying In One Place
I had a lot of jobs in my 20s. Since I left for college at 18 I have worked as: farmhand, law-firm runner, university groundskeeper, shoe salesman, forklift operator, bus boy, food runner, waiter,...
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Our Technology Contains Us
For the last year I have lived in Goyang, on the western edge of the greater Seoul metropolitan area. It takes me about an hour to get home by bus from where I work in the center of the city. The bus I...
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We Make Our Own Traditions: An Interview With Adam Gnade
Bart Schaneman The last time I saw Adam Gnade he looked the best I have ever seen him look. When I knew him in San Diego his eyes had the non-blinking, focused, stressed intensity of his daily life...
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This Expat Life
I. I step into my 13th-floor apartment in a residential neighborhood northwest of Seoul. I unplug my headphones and set them on the table, then I plug my speakers into my phone and hit play to finish...
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Why I’m Not Voting
As much as I hate talking politics, especially at the bar, lately even my normally fun-loving, congenial conversation has been steered away from talk of female fantasies and proper ways to make bourbon...
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The World Is Not A Cold Dark Place
The world is full of strangers. Those you think you know change on you, reveal true natures, true motives. Often it seems like the longer you know someone the less you understand them. It’s easy to get...
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In Praise Of Journalism
Just so we’re clear from the beginning — I realize I’m publishing this article on the internet. One day we’ll talk about newspaper journalists like we talk about blacksmiths and riverboat captains....
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Don’t Be Disappointed
Sunset Mont Blanc, Wenzel Hablik There is this fallacy we have that people get better at life the older they get. When we are children we know a lie when we hear it. Then we get older. We’re constantly...
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If I Could See All My Friends Tonight
We all promise we won’t lose touch. Friends forever. You’re like my brother. My sister. I won’t be gone for that long. We’re not going to change that much. On “Smoke Ring For My Halo,” Kurt Vile sings...
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Life During Wartime Hype
SEOUL — For the first time in recent years it seems imaginable. We talk about what we would do, where we would go. Nothing tangible has changed, but these media reports, government statements, and...
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