Myth Takes
Donna ZuckerbergIrreverent feminist analysis of classics, culture, and life by Donna Zuckerberg: writer, recovering academic, and abuser of ascending tricola.
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A few good things to do in SF if you're feeling retraumatized by the SCS
For many people, the holidays are over now — but not for people who study the ancient Mediterranean! WE still have the annual meeting of the Society for Classical Studies this week. I count it as part of the holidays because: it happens eve...
Myth Takes 2025 Gift Guide: So You Want to Start an Art Supplies Addiction
Hello, friends. It’s been a while, hasn’t it? There are a lot of reasons for that, including my growing ambivalence with Substack as a platform and a frustrating stall-out on my memoir while my publisher tried to find a new editor for the p...
some ancient texts just waiting for brave translators to rename them
I read a really fascinating piece on LitHub recently by Mark Harman, a Kafka translator. LitHub chose to title the piece “The Case for Renaming Kafka’s Metamorphosis as The Transformation” even though it’s actually an excerpt from an essay...
creative cross-training
If I had made a Bingo board with predictions for 2025, it would not have had “start a regular art practice” on it. Just look at the opening of this post from late 2024!
But then something changed. And I’m so grateful, for reasons I’ll get...
the joys and challenges of writing a "soul-crushingly of-the-moment" academic book
Hello, friends! It’s been a little while. I’ve been traveling a lot, and I noticed that I haven’t really been reading the newsletters I subscribe to, so I figured it would be a kindness to us all if I didn’t force myself to put out content...
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