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writing is not the point of writing
One of the more humiliating things about writing a newsletter where you get to write about whatever you want is that sometimes you run around saying, to yourself and others, “I don’t want to write about this thing, I hate writing about this...
the dog boswell, of the great war bark
I think it’s fair to say that most people who read the Iliad don’t expect to find much of it to seem “applicable” in their everyday life. I’ve never angered a river god by killing so many people that I choked the flow of water, nor do I thi...
you're a filthy woman now
Perfect Blue is one of the all-time movies. It’s about Mima, a member of a C-tier idol group called “CHAM.” Well, she was: Mima is now transitioning to acting, with one member of her management team, Tadokoro, encouraging this decision and...
monthly digest: june 2026
I had this amazingly detailed dream about my book recently when I’d given it this crazy conceit of setting it in a boarding house or hotel or something where the various authors lived, and Tiptree could see the ghosts of people before they...
new writing: love and marriage (taylor's version)
All is chaos—usually the monthly digest would go out today—but instead you have this and the June digest goes out in July. All the clocks are broken, as Auden said I think, about death but also he would have said it about my normal schedule...
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