Preface
About Metafictions: Temporal Landings
Permanent Transitions
How Do I Live Now Without the Life of the Mind? — On transitioning to a less rigorous, but more variedly lived post-academic life
The Fading Away of a Former Life — How digital walls imposed through online classes detached me from what I thought I could never live without
Living with the Stranger Within — Maintaining self-awareness when juggling multiple selves
Literature, Media, and Culture
My Family in Parallel Universes — The multiverse in literature (Borges’s “The Garden of Forking Paths”) and in my domestic life
Returning to Many Old Notebooks, Many Old Selves — A primer on metafiction through my meta-notebooks
Why I Don’t Listen to Music, Podcasts, and Audiobooks — How time is experienced differently when you read compared to when you listen to or watch something
The Romantic and Realist Paradox— Lessons on romance, realism, and metafiction from literary studies
Film/TV Essays
Terror, Beauty, Trauma in Bird Box Barcelona — On the weaponization of emotional wounds
