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Foreign Return out in August 2026

I’ve been quiet on this site for the last couple of years, because I’ve been focusing a lot of my energy working on my debut book, Foreign Return: On Art and Inhabitation, which I’m thrilled to announce has been acquired by the wonderful team at NewSouth Books and will be out in August 2026. The book, a work of literary nonfiction, draws on memoir and art criticism to search for a new language of home in a world in which the old stories of belonging no longer apply.

It’s a culmination of the writing and thinking that I’ve been doing my entire career and the questions that I’ve been grappling with for as long as I can remember. You can read the full announcement here, and also subscribe to my newsletter over at Substack, where I’ll be writing monthly letters from the intersection between art and life, and thinking, in public, about some of the craft questions that I’ve encountered while working on the book.

Posted on November 17, 2025

Tags: book