Daniel Olivieri

My friend Armaan used to mention an allegory which compared humans to hedgehogs in winter. The hedgehogs don’t want to get near each other because they each want to avoid getting pricked by one another’s prickles.

A Critical Investigation of Why It Feels so Good to Talk to People in the Dark

The Thread

Non-fiction

In middle school, the problem of the contiguous self would occasionally keep me up at night. I was me right now, that I was sure of. But once I went to sleep how did I know that this current self would remain intact?

The Danger of Author Photos and the Pleasure of TSA Inspections

The Thread

Non-fiction

Reading is such an intimate thing. The right writer will lead you, sentence by sentence, down the back alleys of their minds, pointing out every monument, every cemetery, every nook and cranny of their personality.

Daniel Olivieri

Both the Prickles and the Cold

A Critical Investigation of Why It Feels so Good to Talk to People in the Dark

The Danger of Author Photos and the Pleasure of TSA Inspections