Reading, Writing, & Arithmetic Hardcover – Large Print, December 12, 2025

Reading, Writing, & Arithmetic is not a book and it is a movement of thought that tries to hold itself without breaking. I write to reach the moment before a feeling has a name and before truth becomes obedient. I want you to read me as I happen. These essays become the arithmetic of being alive as I count small violences and quiet tenderness and inherited hunger that lives inside my ribs. I measure what was given to me and what I had to invent just to survive myself. I study the body the way a child studies a new alphabet with the need to turn letters into revelation. I read what cannot be taught and I write what refuses to disappear. I speak of love as if it were a sudden understanding that startles me into honesty. I meet grief with the same careful attention I give to anything that refuses to disappear. I learn myself with every sentence. Do not look for stories. Look for the instant and the raw cut of awareness and the place where thought becomes naked. Reading, Writing, & Arithmetic is the living act of thinking and the slow attempt to stay alive without running from what it reveals. Read more