Referential
Michael Colbert, Summer Wrobel, Emma BurgerWriters, artists, and other creatives chat about their work and artistic process
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 118 | Founded | 4 years ago | Last Issue | 4 days ago |
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Letter writing, your crush’s name, 1800s Vermont’s culinary scene
Tillie Walden came across the most fortuitous of surprises as Vermont’s cartoonist laureate. Right after being sworn in in 2023, the folks at Vermont Humanities reached out to her about drawing a comic about Charity Bryant and Sylvia Drake,...
I just talk like a regular guy
Some friends just have good taste—or else they understand yours so well that when they recommend something, you know it will be good. So when one of these such friends gave me a copy of Fresh, Green Life for my birthday, I was ready to be a...
There’s a tremendous amount of space for what I want to do
Melissa Crowe is one of those thinkers whose mind I’ll follow anywhere. Her first two poetry collections, Dear Terror, Dear Splendor and, Lo, are lyrical and bracing portraits of a life begun in northern Maine, in poverty, and in encounters...
My novella is coming out next year!
I’m dropping in with some personal news today. I’m so excited to share that my novella, The Bisexual, is coming out with Gold Coast Editions next September! The book is like Cruel Intentions meets Conversations with Friends, about four gay...
Competition TV, Icelandic book flood, Ryan Murphy flops
October 2026 MASH ft. Lois Lowry, Big Brother, the ongoing trials of Stella Lefty
This month on MASH, Robert Pattinson earns his flowers for going sicko and doing what The Odyssey could never let him do in his newest film. Kyle Carrero Lop...
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Writer, editor, books at the Press Herald
Summer Wrobel is a writer and editor from Brooklyn, NY. Her work appears or is forthcoming in The Adroit Journal, The Sonora Review, and Hayden’s Ferry Review, among others. She co-hosts The Cusp Reading Series in Crown Heights.
Emma Burger is the founder of the indie press, Gold Coast Editions. She is the author of two novels, Little Rich Kids (2025) and Spaghetti for Starving Girls (2021). She is an essays editor at Zona Motel and the interviews editor at Hobart.
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