Dots & Arrows
Dave DenisonPolitics and prose, strikes and gutters, ups and downs. . .
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Monthly |
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| Issues | 72 | Founded | 7 years ago | Last Issue | 5 months ago |
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It Was a Very ___ Year
Discount. | Photo by Art Trucker
Dear Readers,
I don’t know exactly what year this happened, but I remember it clearly: It was a December in my youth and I was beginning to take an interest in the news. One of the networks had put togethe...
My Books of the Year
A few good books that rose to the top shelf in 2025.
Dear Readers,
I once met a charming little rat named Duncan. He had snow-white fur around his hindquarters and was gray around his head and shoulders, with a jagged gray stripe along h...
Riffing about Reading
Dear Readers Who Still Read,
Some of you will remember the old public service spots that asserted “reading is fundamental.” There are a bunch of them from the ’70s and ’80s archived on YouTube, such as this somber one from 1973 and this on...
What Ails Us
Three new works in “Rx” by Alice Denison, a show at Gallery NAGA in Boston.
Dear Readers,
Not far from where we live, there is a big Coca-Cola bottling plant. It’s in an industrial area, and if you drive by at the wrong time you may find...
I've got TES
Watching “the Guardians” at “Progressive Field,” July, 2023.
To My Readers:
Buried in the middle of a story I wrote this spring about my bowling excursions was a mention of the proprietor of Town Line Luxury Lanes in Malden, Mass., who is...
Audience Metrics
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Editor, writer, bowler. (Sr. Ed. at The Baffler magazine.)
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