
A collection of reflections, essays, and general detritus from the mind of Peter Banks.
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Results of the community poll from Washington to Lincoln
For a while now I’ve been running a daily presidential tier list over on Notes — with everyone voting on rankings of S through F. We’ve just reached Lincoln, which puts us about a th...
Listen to my conversation with host of The Xanadu Review, where I just did a podcast, author of Americana Obscura. Go subscribe!
Here is a summary of our discussion from Chatty:
1. 00:00 — Two Word Cells on Substack
The conversation o...
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Two days after Theo’s confrontation, Raven’s hand began to shake while he was eating breakfast. The tremor moved from her fingers into her wrist and up her forearm...
I want to celebrate Juneteenth and I suspect you do too. Emancipation is the closest thing America has to a redemption arc on its founding sin, and the end of slav...
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Victor was waiting outside her house when she came through the door. May was wearing a green dress he had not seen before, long and loose, and her black hair wa...
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