The Archive Troll
Adin DobkinA bit of history, criticism, writing, and teaching.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Infrequently |
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| Issues | 27 | Founded | 8 years ago | Last Issue | 22 days ago |
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Announcing These Bones Can Speak
The book I obliquely discussed earlier this year (and in 2025, 2024, somehow not in 2023, and first in 2022, after a year of quiet research) has a beautiful cover designed by Kimberly Glyder and a release date. These Bones Can Speak: A Bord...
The Production of Nonfiction
Letter writer, Johann Joachim Kändler
It’s a minor task to describe the difficulties of writing in a particular form. Publishing and the adjacent industries that have buttressed writers’ lives for decades are the subjects of various, overl...
What I've been up to
This year began with some intensity, after my editor sent along a first set of edits for my manuscript just before the holidays. I knew the pages I turned in were unwieldy, but I had already taken an extra year to finish the manuscript and...
2024 in reading
It’s been a productive year, and this newsletter has suffered for that: a manuscript doubled in length from what my editor and I first discussed (and which I’ve just returned to at a slightly more manageable pace), a semi-regular teaching s...
2023 in Reading
A bit of an odd reading year. Productive, but with most books occupying an uncomfortable middle place between research and pleasure (novels picked up for pleasure flagged as they were read; research works less relevant than I once thought a...
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Author of Sprinting Through No Man's Land and These Bones Can Speak (out on 1/26/27). Teacher and organizer most other times.
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