The August Journal
A newsletter on literature, culture, history, and philosophy.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 46 | Founded | a year ago | Last Issue | 13 days ago |
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Would You Make a Good Courtier?
In 1528, a work called The Book of the Courtier was released to the world by Aldine Press. The author, Baldassare Castiglione, was an Italian diplomat and courtier whose aim was to provide a guide to would-be courtiers on how to conduct the...
Are Writers Made or Born?
Writers are made, for anybody who isn’t illiterate can write; but geniuses of the writing art like Melville, Whitman or Thoreau are born.
The above quote is taken from a 1962 essay written by Jack Kerouac for Writer’s Digest with the title...
A List of Horrifying 19th-Century Inventions That Keep Me Up at Night
Euphonia, the Talking Machine
We begin with Euphonia, the talking machine which debuted to the world in the summer of 1845. Created by Austrian inventor and professor Joseph Faber, Euphonia featured the face of a woman who—through the...
It Feels Overwhelming to Simply Exist
“I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness
There is a belief harbored somewhere within me and it surfaces occasionally above the din: that consciousness such as we possess was a mistake. By...
Death by Loincloth: Why it Happens and How to Avoid it
In 720 BCE, the Greek runner Orsippus tripped, fell, and died during the 15th Olympic Games when his loincloth came loose. After this horrific incident, Greek athletes cast off their loincloths for good, competing naked in wrestling, racing...
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