Hello. Welcome to my personal website, where I organize my writing, translation, and philosophy work.
Over the past week I could feel myself slowing down, hesitating to pick back up Alvin Lu's Daydreamers . Not because of disinterest but because I didn't want it to end. I wanted to savor it. At its core Daydreamers is a mystery and a fairly mundane one at that: what really happened between Rafael and Lena that ended with his death? We find out nothing. And…
Read →Just in case the widget above doesn't properly load, here's a link to my list on Bookshop.org: https://bookshop.org/lists/books-read-in-2025-frank-garrett . In addition to the books listed above, I also read the following: The Iliad by Homer, trans W.H.D. Rouse Time|Life by Catherine Mayer, Renard Press smalltownnovella by Ronald M. Schernikau, trans Lucy…
Read →Since there’s no real literary news today I wanted to share a bit from a book proposal I’m putting together for my translation of Mirosław Nahacz’s 2003 novel Eight Four . The numbers in the title correspond to the year the author was born, and Nahacz is keen to offer, between shroom picking, partying, and petty arguments, his evaluation of everything that…
Read →I Know What You Did Summer Before Last I Know What You Did A Couple Of Summers Ago I Know What You Did That One Summer Long Ago I Know What You Did Last Autumn I Know What You Did Last Summer: Tokyo Drift Do I Even Know What You Did Last Summer?! Do I Want To Know What You Did Last Summer Do They Know It’s Summertime I Too Know What You Did Last Summer but…
Read →At some point near the beginning of 2025 I decided that I'd try to get through as many epics as I could, though I didn't spend much time defining what I meant by epic. Is it something ancient and narrative? Is it merely any big book? With this hesitant definition and even more tentative ambition, I started compiling a chronological list. Oh, and my singular…
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