The Catalogue
Selected Works
Every archive is an argument about what deserves keeping. This one holds fourteen records across five shelves. Pull a drawer…
- № 014 The Architecture of Forgetting On reading rooms, ruined libraries, and the paperwork of loss. The flagship of this archive.
- № 013 Amharic Has No Word for This Translation as inheritance; what a language keeps when its speakers scatter.
- № 012 The Last Typesetter of Addis Ababa Six weeks in a letterpress shop that outlived three governments.
- № 011 Against the Clean Draft A defense of the crossed-out sentence and the visible second thought.
- № 010 The Cartographer’s Widow A short story about maps that outlive their territories. Anthologized twice.
- № 009 Who Owns a Recipe? Injera, intellectual property, and the strange law of inherited taste.
- № 008 Solder & Sons (brand narrative) Voice, manifesto, and product language for a third-generation tool maker.
- № 007 Four Poems After the Flood Water damage as a form of revision. Pushcart nominee.
- № 006 A Field Guide to Leaving (edited) Developmental edit of a debut memoir. Longlisted for a national prize.
- № 005 The Comfort of Card Catalogues On search, serendipity, and the drawer as a thinking machine.
- № 004 The Meridian Redesign (editorial voice) House style, section names, and standfirst language for a quarterly’s relaunch.
- № 003 Salt Roads: The Anthology Years Contributing editor across three anthologies of diaspora writing.
- № 002 Handwriting Is a Place My father’s ledger, my mother’s letters, and the geography of a hand.
- № 001 The Lamplight, Issues 1–8 Founding senior editor. Commissioned forty writers; kept every galley.
14 records · shelf A–Z