James A. Reeves
A writer and designer in the Middle West who makes midnight mixtapes and writes about faith in the digital age.
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James A. Reeves
A writer and designer in the Middle West who makes midnight mix tapes and writes about faith in the digital age.
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James A. Reeves

James A. Reeves

The Nightly News

The Nightly News

Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum
Michigan

The American School in London
London
Seven Years Ago, I Placed a Significant Bet

Seven Years Ago, I Placed a Significant Bet

Seven years ago, we debated how the world would end.
The Effects Are Deeper Than the Struggle to Remain Upright

The Effects Are Deeper Than the Struggle to Remain Upright

Why does the wind leave us feeling so exhausted and harassed?
A Scribble, an Exploded Rocket, and an Oyster Omelet

A Scribble, an Exploded Rocket, and an Oyster Omelet

Woke up the other day and watched a billionaire’s rocket explode.
Goddammit, I Just Graded a Fucking Robot

Goddammit, I Just Graded a Fucking Robot

And it was about the goddamned work of art in the goddamned age of mechanical reproduction, of all things.
She Reminisced About the Cambrian Period

She Reminisced About the Cambrian Period

She said we were looking at the Bonanza King Formation, which sounds like a doomed band from the 1970s.
What Happens Here Happens Everywhere

What Happens Here Happens Everywhere

I had time to kill at the Las Vegas airport, where it feels like being returned to a pleasant memory of 1987.
Letting Go of the Maps in My Head

Letting Go of the Maps in My Head

The desert silence baffles my Midwestern mind.
Technology Might Have Peaked With Magnetic Tape

Technology Might Have Peaked With Magnetic Tape

A delightful sense of slippage occurs when you can’t decide if something is brilliant or awful.
Suddenly We Found Ourselves Hiking

Suddenly We Found Ourselves Hiking

If starvation was on the table, would you rather eat your own finger or a stranger's?
Church Attendance Is Lowest in Nevada

Church Attendance Is Lowest in Nevada

I had no idea there was so much weather in the desert.
We Searched for 10,000 Acres of Sand

We Searched for 10,000 Acres of Sand

Death Valley is a place where ten thousand acres of scenery can easily go missing.

You can feel the geography shift when you see all that big pine and cold water.

At some point the screen became the world, and now we’re haunting it.

The ghosts of old standards, summoned for whatever comes next.

Broadcasting from somewhere between the bells of a temple and the heat of a night market.

A tribute to David Lynch that roams through the ruins of vintage ballads and slow-motion noir.

Anything worthwhile rests on a knife’s edge like the delicate art of falling asleep.

Slowing down my favorite songs has become a spiritual practice.

This man was the antichrist. Yes, he was what the end of civilization looked and sounded like.

It’s tempting to classify Death Prom as mere nostalgia, but it is a complicated haunting.

A few minutes after midnight in the Mojave desert, a preacher appears on a dead radio channel.

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