Hagoth favors essays that can trace their lineage back to Michel de Montaigne; whether narrative, analytical, or devotional, these essays lean ruminative, conversational, meandering, impressionistic, and are reluctant to wax didactic. But that doesn’t mean you won’t find the occasional poem or piece of fiction here as well.
On melancholy, motherhood, and Homer’s Penelope.
The first essay David Sedaris read had me second guessing the next hour and a half and whether it would be worth sitting high up in a hot opera house when I could be at home in fuzzy socks watching Scandinavian crime dramas.
There is a surprisingly robust literary sub-genre centering on over-educated, unlikable young millennials of unexamined privilege somehow able to afford an apartment in New York
One last excerpt from Reviews for Non-Existent Movies.
I got the feeling that something’s goin’ wrong…
“You wasted life, why wouldn’t you waste the afterlife?”
Another excerpt from Reviews for Non-Existent Movies
Happy Mother’s Day.
“All other of our you say free choices follow from this: what is our temple.”
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