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.

Deadpan Delivery in the Music of Dry Cleaning, Lou Reed, and Testimony Meetings

Eric Goulden Kimball September 20, 2022

“The Holy Ghost has no other effect than pure intelligence.” -Joseph Smith

TS Eliot’s The Waste Land Centennial [Annotated Readings]

Hagoth September 13, 2022

Re-writing TS Eliot’s notorious endnotes with the same cheeky sense of humor that Eliot used when he wrote them in the first place.

Religious Man, by Mr. Loco [Annotated Readings]

Patty Ortiz September 11, 2022

I am I am.

Brief Notes on Wittgenstein’s Mistress and the Book of Mormon

Marion Hall September 6, 2022

David Markson’s 1988 postmodern novel Wittgenstein’s Mistress has been hailed by no less than David Foster Wallace as “pretty much the high point of experimental