A Trunkful of Hobbies
October 26, 2026What does the stuff we carry in our cars say about us? A trunk full of racing equipment and sporting clays gear becomes an unexpected reflection on hobbies, identity, and the soul of the automobile.
Author: Joshua Penrod
Revisionist History
October 9, 2026Revision is where a finished draft reveals how unfinished it really is—and where perfectionism has to give way to sending the damned thing.
Value, Soul, and a Rented X7
October 3, 2026A week with a BMW X7 M60i raised a familiar question: what makes a car feel like more than transportation?
Synthwave
September 13, 2026Synthwave, back roads, and the strange way the future we imagined in the 1980s has actually arrived—just not quite in the form we expected.
Newtown Battlefield, New York
August 29, 2026A visit to Newtown Battlefield in New York prompts a meditation on war, memory, liberty, and the very human costs hidden beneath the abstractions of history.
How Deep Was the Water? History, Fiction, and Verisimilitude
July 29, 2026How much water stood in Johnstown before the Great Flood of 1889—and how much does the precise answer matter? A novelist’s struggle with conflicting sources becomes a reflection on historical fiction, accuracy, and the deeper truth behind verisimilitude.