Road Atlas: Start Here
A guide for finding your way.
In the distance the wind swirls like a mini-tornado, kicking up dust from a playa. Soon a tumbleweed barrels toward you, rolling wild as tumbleweeds do. It’s a long, lonesome road that lies ahead with not another soul in sight. Tonight you’ll build a fire under desert skies where strange sightings may or may not occur. You wake with the husky at dawn, dreams still lingering at the periphery of your thought. In a few hours you’ll roll into the next forgotten American town with a stack of books on your passenger seat, a thousand-song playlist on the stereo, dogs sleeping soundly in the backseat. You wonder long and far, never certain nor afraid of where the road might take you. If this sounds like you, you’re in good company here.
Welcome to the Endless American Road, where I write literary dispatches from the haunted American margins: long drives, books, grief, strange sightings, dogs, belief, and America beyond the interstates.
If you’re new here, let me explain the sections of the site and share a piece from each to start with:
American Arcana
America is a land where the haunted and the strange walk every road. In this section we explore ritual, signs, strange sightings in the sky, and the esoteric all through the lens of a psychedelic chaos magickian routed in Celtic and Western lore.
Campfire Curriculum
This is the section where we explore literature, film, music, the arts, and culture in a way that rejects the contemporary academic trends of the day. Our focus is on work that matters and why—sharing a working canon for working people trying to make sense along the way.
Mile Markers
Dispatches from the mythic American landscape—deserts, coasts, truck stops, and the liminal spaces in between that make this country great. Adventure is at the center of this project, and I plan to grow this section a lot in the coming year.
Signal Fire
Here I try to find the signal in the noise, sorting through culture, politics, and the culture of the moment. I try to write here through the lens of my own experience and understanding. I enjoy this writing, but it’s also the most divisive. Start here:
If you’re still here, here are two more of my favorites:
As this Substack continues to gain momentum, look forward to more regular posts and multimedia experiments.
But for now, I thank you kindly for being here and look forward to crossing paths out there on the Endless American Road.
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