Craig Haller — Writing and Essays by the Author of Useful Nothingness
The writing usually begins in fragments. Words act like another kind of sound. I follow them until they settle into a shape, whether an essay, a poem, or a song.
Useful Nothingness: A Working Theory of Being
Useful Nothingness is a genre-defiant blend of lyrical nonfiction, poetic essays, and philosophical fragments. It is a resonant meditation on the unresolved spaces of modern life.
Written for the existentially curious, it explores what moves beneath the surface: where memory becomes myth, connection flickers and fades, and silence speaks in ways language cannot.
Structured like a mixtape, this ambient collection moves between stillness and intensity, solitude and ache, doubt and wonder. It resists tidy answers and leans instead into presence, attention, and the strange persistence of selfhood in a noisy world.
For readers drawn to spiritual writing without religion, existential reflections, or the quiet music of language itself, Useful Nothingness offers a rare kind of companionship. It does not explain. It reflects.
“It undresses slowly. Not to seduce, but to bleed a little on the floor.”
The ongoing experiment.
Essays, field notes, and other ramblings
