Open in app
Home
Notifications
Lists
Stories

Write
Ryan Langan
Ryan Langan

Home
About

May 13

Growing

Ah, fuck. Fuck! I can’t clear my thoughts up today. All manner of disparate things are whirling around my noggin — tequila, disco, black holes, life and death, this wacky bird called a great potoo, the Jungian concept of individuation, the Andes Mountains, Hot Pockets. What does anyone make of…

4 min read


Feb 14

The Novel

I’ve found a flow. It’s odd because I never expected that there would be one. I had always thought of my writing as what it was — produced in random bursts of energy and coherence, or else bled from me in delirium. Which was fine, for what I was doing…

3 min read

The Novel
The Novel

Oct 6, 2021

NYNOW

NYNOW It is the week of the October 2021 NY NOW Showcase at 41 Madison. It is evidently quite an affair — a real who’s who of the giftware and tableware market. …

4 min read


Aug 26, 2021

L’empire de la Mort

Ahahahaha! Happy New Year! I got paid today — hip-hip-hooray — and I intend to treat myself to a little Jameson, a little White Castle, and a little solitude in which I can marinate my mind in the complex flavor profile of a very grounded yet lofty madman. Things are…

3 min read


Aug 12, 2021

Hmmm…

The showroom today has the noxious air and bubbling instability of a malfunctioning nuclear reactor. I am hiding in the back office while the other three take turns bitching at each other. One used the other’s CVS card without asking, one is incessantly neurotic, one is a liar, one is…

5 min read

Hmmm…
Hmmm…

Jul 26, 2021

Money

I amuse myself. I am a total shmuck! and it makes me laugh. Better to laugh than to cry, though, right? Last month, I took out a personal loan for two thousand dollars. It’s all gone. Impressive, eh? I paid off my ConEd bill (five months late), paid off one…

3 min read


Jul 6, 2021

Erich, Fireworks, White Castle

“How was your weekend?” Erich asked. I dislike Erich. I receive his questions like an annoying slap to the back of the head. He is a senseless automaton and only asked that question so he could coolly segue into his own over-indulgent story of his weekend. “Good,” I replied. “Anyone…

3 min read


Jul 1, 2021

Trains

I had a train of thought earlier that I can no longer board. But trains… hm… So much of my life has been spent on trains. Weeks and weeks worth of time. I think now of the train to Valencia, dangerously hungover and fleeing Madrid, crashing after twelve hours of…

3 min read

Trains
Trains

Jun 30, 2021

Heat and Other Shit — copied from my notebook scribbles

Out here in the heat — a delirium I caress. The sun burns my eyes and I squint by the absurd laws of psychosis in a Saharan sandstorm…

3 min read

Heat and Other Shit — copied from my notebook scribbles
Heat and Other Shit — copied from my notebook scribbles

Jun 23, 2021

Office

I’m too busy dreaming to get any work done. It would be unfortunate if it weren’t instead hilarious, for there is truly no purpose to any of the work here at William Yeoward Crystal, and still less purpose to the idea that there is something the human being is meant…

2 min read

Ryan Langan

Ryan Langan

To meditate on the warmest dream

Help

Status

Writers

Blog

Careers

Privacy

Terms

About

Knowable