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About

Hi, I'm Luke. Thanks for reading.

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I grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, went to Belmont Hill and then Harvard, and played squash.

I love writing. Most of mine appears first on Fourth Floor Light, my Substack: essays; Thoughts from New Quincy, a column I wrote at Harvard; and Kitchen Sink, a serialized story written with Jonah Karafiol.

I love art, too, and wrote my thesis on contemporary art. Building Without Permission is about artists who build without institutional permission, among them El Anatsui, Mark Bradford, and Theaster Gates. All five chapters are here.

Away from the page, I love running and squash.

Read Building Without Permission·Kitchen Sink·Thoughts from New Quincy

What I love

Writing
Essays, a column, a serialized story, and a thesis, all collected here.
Art
Contemporary art especially. My thesis, Building Without Permission, is about it.
Running
Squash

Timeline

  1. Life

    Grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts

  2. School

    Belmont Hill

  3. School

    Harvard

  4. Writing

    Wrote my thesis on contemporary art

    Building Without Permission

At a glance

From
Cambridge, MA
School
Belmont Hill, then Harvard
Loves
Writing, running, squash, and art
Thesis
Building Without Permission, on contemporary art

All writing·Substack·LinkedIn