
Literary, journalistic, irreverent yet oddly serious, Journal of the Plague Years gets the story behind the story.
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Essential writing by essential writers on essential subjects. What more could you ask?
Lucian K. Truscott IV
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The writers behind this newsletter.
Journalist: GQ, Vogue, Salon, The New York Times, etc. Author: Coyotes and Town Dogs: Earth First! and the Environmental Movement, a few others. MFA in fiction. Stepmom to brilliant, amusing boys.
Professor, writer, former Secretary of Labor, author of The System, The Common Good, Saving Capitalism, Aftershock, Supercapitalism, The Work of Nations. Co-creator of "Inequality for All" and "Saving Capitalism." Co-founder of Inequality Media
Marc Cooper is an award winning writer, journalist and professor.
Writer.
I was raised by a pack of wild televisions.
Playa, road scholar, insurgent.
Benjamin Stuart Reed is a U.S. Army veteran and writer whose work has appeared in Esquire, The Daily Beast, Le Devoir, and Asia Times. He fought in Ukraine. He is wanted by the Russian Federation for fighting in Ukraine and is writing a memoir.
Brian Cullman is west village editor of the Journal of the Plague Years. He has written for The Paris Review, Rolling Stone, Details, Creem, The Village Voice and other papers. He has 3 solo albums on Sunnyside Records.
Writer | Strategist | Media Founder I write The Long Memo and Borderless Living—two Substack publications on politics, collapse, and the architecture of exit.
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