Dark Matter

Teacher, worker, friend

I talk about my audio fiction podcast, The Attentionist, and other aspects of writing and the creative life.

Six decades ago, someone tried to kill a Nashville city councilman. No one was ever caught and the case remains cold. Well, kinda.

Step into the waters of poetic silences

As a transgender American woman in a time of moral panic, Chrissy Stroop is one of society's current "bugbears." Here she publishes weekly musings connecting her reading and other cultural consumption to her thoughts on American society and more.

How to survive the zone between soil and stars, without becoming hollow.

Causing trouble, fighting for morality, and empowering people to think through the complicated mess of the world.

I reported Trump '16 and '20 for magazines & in my book THE UNDERTOW: Scenes from a Slow Civil War. I was going to sit '24 out, but the slow civil war is speeding up.