Category: My Essays

  • Vol.1 Brooklyn Links To My Essay

    I was honored that the website Vol. 1 Brooklyn included a link to my new essay in The Rumpus. It was featured in their Morning Bites roundup. Check it out.

  • My New Essay in The Rumpus

    I have a piece up at The Rumpus today titled “The Dreams of a Shrinking Nation” which is both an essay on the Japanese mega-pop band Dreams Comes True (my wife is a big fan) as well as a light-hearted look at Japan’s current demographic problems. The occasion for the essay was an Oct. 1, 2011 appearance…

  • Newsweek’s “The Daily Beast” Chimes in on My Recent Essay

    Andrew Sullivan, who writes the popular “The Dish” column on Newsweek’s “The Daily Beast” website, mentioned my recent essay on Catholic writers in The Millions. The title of his post is “The Poetry of the Latin Mass.” Sullivan writes: “Robert Fay wonders why there aren’t great contemporary Catholic writers like Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, and…

  • My Essay in ‘The Millions’

    I recently published an essay on the online literary site The Millions titled, “Paris, Wikipedia and My Middle Age Crisis.” Each man’s middle age crisis begins at an indeterminate age and offers a peculiar window into the architecture of masculine decline. In this respect it mimics death, which is both punctual and ruthlessly efficient in…