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Vita Contemplativa

Sam Jennings
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Premonitions and reckonings. Orpheus and Eros. An antidote to positivity.

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Latest Issues

The Sound of a Voice

Earlier this year, in January, I wrote an essay for The Point about Harold Bloom. So much has changed in my life in just those intervening eight-or-nine months, it feels like someone else wrote it. And yet this makes complete sense to me. N...

5 days ago
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I Do Believe in America

Jolly Flatboatmen in Port, George Caleb Bingham, 1857

Unbeknownst to all and the world, I’ve been off this year on a kind of personal odyssey (haha, hoho), ongoing since this spring, much of it having to do with trying to get to the bottom...

a month ago
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The Demoiselle's Oceansong

I promise I’ll soon be back with regular programming — I’ve been somewhat buried under my writing (ironic, I know). By now it’s something of a Vita Contemplativa tradition, whenever I get especially waterlogged like this, to share a poem wi...

2 months ago
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Dry Dwellers of Eternity

This piece was rejected (implicitly or explicitly) by ~10 magazines, so in the time I spent pitching it, the zeitgeist of the Backrooms surely passed it by. Yet the film remains a seriously strange success — and the idea of the Backrooms it...

3 months ago
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The Secret of the Universe

My most recent post ended up being the most successful post I’ve ever made on Substack, attracting an alarming amount of eyeballs and subscribers. This worries me. I’m considering deleting Vita Contemplativa forever. But rather than being s...

3 months ago
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    American writer in London - Associate Editor @ The Hinternet - Film Critic @ The Metropolitan Review - General Editor @ You Go to My Head.

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