Retreat – Chapter 9

Here you are! Happy reading. -Kugelmass Retreat – Chapters 1-4 Retreat – Chapter 5 Retreat – Chapter 6 Retreat – Chapter 7 Retreat – Chapter 8 Retreat – Chapter 9

100 TV Shows You Shouldn’t Miss — You Won’t Believe #69

Compiled by top TV critics in their pajamas. 1. the sopranos 2. breaking bad 3. the wire 4. battlestar galactica 5. six feet under 6. the americans 7. arrested development 8. twin peaks… Continue reading →

Retreat: Chapter 8

Here’s the new chapter of the novel! You can read the previous ones here. Retreat – Chapter 8

Retreat: Chapters 1-7

Guess who’s back? Here’s the new chapter of the novel, and all the ones before it. Enjoy. More is coming soon. I’m serious. -Kugelmass Retreat – Chapter 7 Retreat – Chapter 6 –… Continue reading →

This Has Never Happened Before

I know you’re tired of reading about Trump. I know you wouldn’t expect the definitive piece of writing anticipating his Administration to come out of the blogosphere. Regardless, what Nicholas Bourbaki has to… Continue reading →

The Best Of The Kugelmass Episodes!

Dear readers, The greatest hits page has been updated. That hasn’t happened since 2012! Taken together, these essays represent the collection that I hope will long outlive me. (Not that it’s done growing,… Continue reading →

The Worst of 2016

Dear readers, This is an exciting moment. Right now, only days after the beginning of 2017, we here at The Kugelmass Episodes are ready to reveal what was great — and what wasn’t… Continue reading →

That there is good in all things

I went to the bookstore today to sell my copy of Emma Straub’s novel Modern Lovers, which is a fairly terrible example of “contemporary fiction.” (It is, however, a terrific band name. There… Continue reading →

Two thoughts about art, via Werner Herzog

There is something so fundamentally anti-life about creating art. It comes from this very sad, alienated place, in part; you’re creating art because you don’t want to be alive, or if you do… Continue reading →

A Short Post About Manchester By The Sea

I was thinking, “Hey, my life isn’t great, and nothing is really going on.” So I decided to “get away from it all” by going to a matinee! There I was, watching Manchester… Continue reading →