Geek Out
Brenden O'DonnellA memoir, criticism, and craft newsletter.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 50 | Founded | a year ago | Last Issue | a month ago |
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The Serenity of Influence
What does it mean to be influenced?
Lately, I’ve been feeling very influenced by Charles Dickens. I committed this year to reading five classic British novels. I thought it would be a fun way to mix up my usual reading patterns. My current...
Geeking Out in Winter 2026
I’m interested in using creativity to bend time into new shapes. When I have free time, I like to spend it by layering experiences on top of each other, creating new flavors like wine tastings: roasting red peppers with The West Wing playin...
On the Terrorism of Internalized Heteropatriarchy
This post is part of a series of experiments that I’ve been conducting as I revise my memoir. I’m trying to boil jargon down into little bite-sized scenes that make you FEEL complicated-sounding words like “heteropatriarchy.” Can you feel i...
How to Find Where You Grew Up
This post is about how surprising and interesting it can be to write about where you came from. It’s about how choosing to write about something that seems like the most obvious thing in the world—your hometown—is actually very challenging...
Chairman
Troy stumbled chasing the paper bag somersaulting over the sand. It was late afternoon and the color of the sun’s light had deepened to copper. The other guys he worked with hadn’t stuck around to help clean up.
It was the second week of t...
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