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good morning (it’s 4) to my sexy little emailers!!!! I was trying to be so cute towards you by writing outside at a café in Bushwick but someone is blasting screamo metal music? so loud that I cannot have…
#156 - Incident in the red light district.
#156 若杉鳥子「ある遊郭での出来事」 ある晩、Ｆ楼の亭主が隣家のＨ楼の電話を借りにいった。 Ｆにも電話があるのに自分の処へ借りに来たものだから、Ｈ楼の亭主は何事かと思って、 『お宅の電話は、どうかしましたか？』 と訊いた。 『ナニ、警察へちょっと……野郎感づくと遁がしちまうから……』 Vocabulary: 若杉鳥子 わかすぎとりこ Wakasugi Toriko (author, 1892…
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"A Kind of Laboratory." Q & A With Stephanie G'Schwind, Editor of Colorado Review
Another editor interview has just wrapped! Today I spoke with Stephanie G’Schwind, Editor of Colorado Review. Colorado Review is one of America’s premier literary magazines. It has been around for half…
Recalibrating What's Good
Hey friends, I’ve read a bunch of mediocre (published) books lately. And THOROUGHLY ENJOYED THEM. Why would I call them mediocre if I enjoyed them? Because they WERE! They were not high art. The plotting…
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LOG OF THE "DEMETER." 3 August.—At midnight I went to relieve the man at the wheel, and when I got to it found no one there. The wind was steady, and as we ran before it there was no yawing. I dared not…
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Hawker Sea Hurricane Mark I, V6733, of the Merchant Ship Fighter Unit, on the fo'c'sle catapult on board Catapult Armed Merchantman (CAM ship) SS EMPIRE DARWIN, in a convoy heading for North Africa. Note…
Very Fine Day #27: Hunter Walk
“Creativity doesn't have to be about economics, but if you deny people the right to see economic benefit from their creativity you are leaving a strategic opening in your product or platform for somebody…
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Hello! Yesterday I took 7-year-old Lucia out for a sunny winter’s day. It started at a French cafe, where we read an Argentine newspaper (“Is it in French?”) and the glutenous among us ate pain au chocolate…
#158: The Longing Edition
Dear reader, I have been feeling perplexed by the intensity and nature of longing these days. This is, of course, not a new feeling. I learnt what homesickness is at boarding school. I have longed for…
the writer's guide to august's astrology
August 2: Sun in Leo opposite Saturn Rx in Aquarius What we want to do may be tempered by what we have to do. The reality check of boundaries — our own or others’ — comes crashing in, quite possibly related…
Join us tomorrow: "Self-Care for Grief" event 🌸
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Welcome back to Memoir Monday—a weekly newsletter and a quarterly reading series, brought to you by Narratively, The Rumpus, Catapult, Granta, Guernica, and Literary Hub. Each personal essay in this newsletter…
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You’re Hoping the U.S. Women’s Soccer Team Takes Gold
Hi Book Lovers, First off, apologies. Due to a Substack snafu, some of you may have received this email yesterday as well as this morning. Sorry about that! Last week, I went to the library and browsed…
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