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Essays

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.

Posted to Zillow: House for Rent on Ash Tree Lane, San Jose, CA

Laura Nivis February 23, 2024

“This is not the house of God. This house IS God.”

On Sixto Rodriguez, South Africa, and Utah Punk Rock

Eric Goulden Kimball February 20, 2024

I have only belatedly gotten into Sixto Rodriguez—but then, in fairness, so did everyone.

Whatever You’re Going To Do, Do It Now

Jacob Bender February 16, 2024

Because there is always less time than you think…

Do You Realize?? by The Flaming Lips [Annotated Readings]

Hagoth February 13, 2024

Acclaimed single from their 2002 album “Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots,” of which a 20th anniversary box set came out just over a year ago.

The Problematics of Iman in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

Rod N. Berry February 11, 2024

Are we not all shape-shifters?

On Neah Bay and the Shedd Aquarium

Brian Rogers February 6, 2024

On the only way we can be exalted.

Zoram’s Sorrow

D.A. Cooper February 4, 2024

I can’t forget that night, my last in Zion

On Lunacy, by Swans

Eric Goulden Kimball January 30, 2024

And the king said that a seer is greater than a prophet. And Ammon said that a seer is a revelator and a prophet also…

Better Things

D.A. Cooper January 28, 2024

The young King Zeniff watches little Noah

On Overqualified, by Joey Comeau

Jacob Bender January 23, 2024

Or, confessions of an ambivalent cover-letter instructor.

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