Unsavory Thoughts
By Thomas Walton
These linked essays of personal and cultural critique include meditations on home and childhood, love and sex, art and literature, parenting and self-destruction, on the city and on death. Walton constantly slips through and between memory’s tenuous folds: “that never happened, exactly, but it’s certainly not a lie.” Witty, candid, defying category, dogma, and expectation, Unsavory Thoughts is a bold self-portrait in an inscrutable landscape: lyric, profound, tragic, hilarious, absurd, insightful, teasing, searing, sincere. This is the world we live in—real or otherwise.
Thomas Walton is the author of Unsavory Thoughts (Sagging Meniscus, 2025), Good Morning Bone Crusher! (Spuyten Duyvil 2021), All the Useless Things Are Mine (Sagging Meniscus, 2020), The World Is All That Does Befall Us (Ravenna Press, 2019), and, with Elizabeth Cooperman, The Last Mosaic (Sagging Meniscus, 2018). His work has appeared in ZYZZYVA, Delmar, Timberline Review, Rivet, Stringtown Magazine, Queen Mob’s Teahouse, Bombay Gin, Pontoon, and other magazines. He is a contributing editor for Exacting Clam.