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I'm competing this Saturday in my gym's annual Halloween fundraiser, to benefit Brooklyn Community Housing & Services, which provides support & safe, clean housing for people who are unhoused or at risk. My team's costume theme is Baywatch! Please donate if you can!
Chestnut-sided warbler, yellow warbler, bunny, and ruby-throated hummingbird at Prospect Park, Brooklyn, August and September 2025. 🪶
For more: https://calebcrain.substack.com/p/steps-and-perches
Black skimmer, lesser yellowlegs, osprey, and red-necked phalarope at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, 24 August 2025. 🪶
For more: https://calebcrain.substack.com/p/steps-and-perches
I wrote something about dissent and the motive for speaking out.
https://calebcrain.substack.com/p/the-motive-for-speaking-out
Indigo bunting, Canada warbler, bay-breasted warbler, and fork-tailed flycatcher, in Brooklyn and Manhattan. 🪶 #birding
A yellow-bellied sapsucker, an American robin, a Louisiana waterthrush, and a least bittern in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, in the early spring of this year. 🪶
For more: https://calebcrain.substack.com/p/early-spring-2025
My mind has rebelled against the cascade of bad things the Trump regime has done lately by insisting that I pay attention for a little while to just one of them.
I wrote something about the importance of not being found:
In a new book, The Long Run: A Creative Inquiry, Stacey D’Erasmo asks half a dozen artists, “How do we keep doing this—making art?” I read it avidly, devouring D’Erasmo’s profiles of a painter, a composer, a garden designer, and others, especially enjoying the “fugitive, occasional memoir” (her words) that her disclosures about herself add up to.
Christmas Bird Count, 2024, in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn: a yellow-bellied sapsucker, a merlin (eating an American robin), a Carolina wren, and a black-capped chickadee. 🪶
"Within the story, Jack’s problem, which becomes the reader’s, is that Roy has a theory, and the theory is just *too much.*"
For the Paris Review, I ask whether the demons of David Lynch's Twin Peaks universe were inspired by a 1982 short story by Norman Rush.
https://mailchi.mp/theparisreview/calebcrainnormanrush?e=224caefe41
