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Synthesizer

Joshua Skaggs

Seeking transcendence through a human-sized lens

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Latest Issues

A Small, Good Thing

It’s been a minute. Or, rather, a year.

Since I last wrote, Synthesizer has mysteriously quadrupled in subscribers, many of whom found me through the Wild at Heart podcast. WELCOME!

By way of introduction, I’m Josh—a writer, teacher, and...

a year ago
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Something New

Hi there,

It’s been a minute. Five months, actually. I miss writing here, though I don’t regret the choices that have kept me away—becoming a foster dad, teaching writing at a local classical school, contributing editorial work on other pr...

2 years ago
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When friends make things

Like many writers, I have spent some time daydreaming about the Inklings. This writer’s group started in the 1920s and included some of the most prominent novelists and scholars of its generation. The Inklings met regularly for almost two d...

3 years ago
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It's been awhile

Hello there,

Since I became a foster dad one year ago I have sent only two issues of Synthesizer. Which was perhaps to be expected—but is still a bummer. I love writing, and I love sharing my writing with you. But single parenting has requ...

3 years ago
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My Year of De-Googling

In college—wait, I should be more specific—in my senior year of college, I broke my printer in a moment of dreamy idiocy. I was an English major with a final project due, a collection of writings I called, “The Dinner and the Scraps.” Visit...

3 years ago
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