Paul M. Rodriguez is an essayist, novelist, scholar, and programmer.

The Ruricolist · Essay series

The Ruricolist is a single-author essay series, broadly philosophical in content. Originally online, it is now also available in print.

The Ruricolist is mostly essays – 157 of them, such as:

• Uncut pages – on writing
• Cell intelligence – on ideas
• Laika – on dogs
• Xerxes – on history
• Civilizations – on history
• Lead – on human nature
• Roadkill – on death

The rest of the 234 numbers is made up of stories, fables, satires, monologues, nondefinitions, and others.

The Ruricolist can be read at the.ruricolist.com, or as a book.

The Endless City · Novel

The Endless City is a novel. The setting is what might be called post-apocalyptic, but not in the wake of destruction. What kind of society would people have, in the ruins of a world they could no longer remember or understand?

Readers frequently compare The Endless City to Cormac McCarthy and Jorge Luis Borges.

• The Endless City (Kindle)
• The Endless City (Print)

The Rambler · Editor

The only complete electronic edition of Samuel Johnson's Rambler available anywhere online, with all classical quotations (Latin and Greek) checked and corrected against their original sources.

• The Rambler (Kindle)
• The Rambler (Nook)

This edition is now also available in print (as a single, complete volume):

• The Rambler (Print)

Open Source Development

I have written many open-source libraries, principally in Common Lisp.

The most popular are Spinneret, an HTML generator; Serapeum, a utility library; Overlord, a build system; and Vernacular, a module system for embedded languages.

More open-source work can be found at:

• GitHub
• GitLab

I also wrote articles blog about programming:

• &c. – Notes and digressions

Et cætera

• The Titling of Imagined Books (Dwarf Planet Press)
• The Hollow Staff (Kyoto Journal)
• On Scholé
• Email
• Hacker News
• Reddit
• Twitter
• LinkedIn