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Luke Wagner

Writer from Cambridge, MA

I write essays, serialized fiction, and about contemporary art.

I grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, went to Belmont Hill and then Harvard, and played squash. Most of what I write appears first on Fourth Floor Light, my Substack, and all of it is collected here.

More about me·What I'm doing now

Series & columns

  • Thesis. My thesis on contemporary art, in five chapters: artists who build without institutional permission, among them El Anatsui, Mark Bradford, and Theaster Gates.

  • Kitchen Sink15 parts

    Serialized fiction. A serialized story told in weekly installments, set inside an asylum. Written with Jonah Karafiol.

  • Column. A column I wrote at Harvard, in the order the pieces appeared.

Elsewhere

If something here stays with you, I'd love to hear about it.