Oblivio was the blog of the writer Michael Barrish, who launched it in 2000 when he moved to Brooklyn, making entries off and on until 2020, when the symptoms of early-onset dementia presented too many difficulties for his once remarkably lucid mind. A unique and utterly absorbing literary diary, Oblivio is both a portrait of a city at the turn of the millennium, and a fine detailing of one man’s loves, trials, and, above all, stubbornly elegant thought process. This book contains every one of Oblivio’s entries, minus any Michael himself may have deleted over the years.

Michael Barrish died in 2023 at the age of 63.