Daniel Scott Parker | Marginalia

My thesis, on the surface level, concerns a double murder that happened outside of my hometown in Georgia in 1930, and the bodies were..

It’s hard to believe that my year as ambassador is coming to a close. It’s been a terrifically exciting, prolific, and rewarding year,..

I was once chastised (putting it mildly) for taking medical advice from a German bartender over a seemingly insouciant French doctor. ..

Summer, y’all.

What does a poet do when it isn’t 20 below zero with a windchill of negative 47 outside and there isn’t a waist-high..

(See also: sentimentality.)

In almost any beginning workshop, you’ll learn that there’s one thing that will turn a good poem sour i..

When I was thirteen, I went to a friend’s beach house for a week in May. I think there was a crawfish festival going on, because I rem..

In my first blog post last September, I mentioned that I’d just started co-curating a Chicago-based reading and performance series cal..

Almost every Wednesday night after class, two classmates—Abigail Zimmer and Tyler Cain Lacy—and I go to Boiler Room to celebrate the h..

Tuesday night I watched True Detective for research. Yesterday I submitted the final draft of my thesis. Today I slept in. If I could ..

Whoever said you can only yolo once was wrong.

Last Tuesday morning I missed my flight to Seattle. The United Airlines attendant to..