At The New Yorker’s Culture Desk page, some thoughts on the subway and cinema.

My essay about them, originally published in the Australia issue of Creative Nonfiction, is now up online as well.

At The New Yorker website, I write about the charming and extremely modern short prose of Peter Altenberg.

 The Full Stop included me in their pathos questionnaire, which looks at the different effects — physical, economic, and so on — that can go with the writing life.

Also, over at Nat Brut: a fable.

For The New Yorker‘s Page-Turner blog, some reflections on coming out of the aphorism closet.

Aforisticamente is an Italian blog that spotlights aphorists from around the world (they exist). Fabrizio Caramagna, who runs the site, was kind enough to put some of Marbles up there in two tongues.

In Creative Nonfiction‘s new “Australia” issue, I have an essay on—what else?— biscuits. There’s also Geraldine Brooks, Robert Dessaix, and Robyn Williams. For a full list of contents, click here.

“Wake in Fright” is a haunting landmark of Australian cinema directed by Ted Kotcheff and released in 1971… I wrote about it for The New Yorker‘s Culture Desk blog.

I talk hip hop memoirs over at n+1.

At The New Yorker online, I look at Transworld‘s thirtieth anniversary interviews, and reflect on skateboarding’s history and on a few of its greatest figures.