what would you like to know about me?

my name is max rothman. i graduated from duke university in 2023, and am currently residing in san francisco.

i enjoy writing short fiction and poetry, and am in general greatly inspired by what the modernists thought the world was like. I am particularly interested in what virginia woolf had to say about humanity. no one else, i dare say, has quite captured so well the fact that we are at once transparent and opaque to ourselves and eachother, and all the beauty and terror that falls out of this condition. "are we not acceptable moon? are we not lovely sitting together here?"

i also take 35mm and digital photos, and make short films on the occasion. all photos found on this website are my own. though i would primarily consider myself a writer, i find that images, still and moving, create a dynamicism that words fail to achieve sometimes.

the simple things often bother me: what does it feel like to feel something? what is it like to be somebody? and what, if anything, do our words have to do with ourselves?

perhaps this is more than you wanted to know