The Republic of Letters

The Republic of Letters is a hub for literary and cultural writing; and a new, genuinely democratic type of digital publication.

Writer of the Substack Sparks From Culture; zealous fan of my family, my Shih Tzu, all things Substack, NYC (lifelong resident); forty year career in finance, now a writer.

Poet, writer, photographer, filmmaker, former minister. Twenty years of writing about grief, desire, faith, family, failure, sex, the Divine, rock n roll, and the overwhelming beauty of life.

I’m a writer, editor, and content strategist. I write about culture, technology, Christian spirituality, the arts, work and leisure, and more.

Reviews of classic lit & sci-fi. Novelist, represented by BookEnds Literary Agency. Past lives: science publisher, UChicago Classics BA, college radio punk/folk DJ. Chicago-born, DC-based.

Associate Professor of English at Rutgers, novelist, translator. Author of Anxieties of Experience: The Literatures of the Americas from Whitman to Bolaño (Oxford) and the Spanish-language novel El americano. Represented by Agencia Silvia Bastos.

Writer by vocation. Work published / forthcoming in places like The Republic of Letters, Denver Quarterly, The Cleveland Review of Books, and Magazine Non Grata. "My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk."

Poet, writer and traveler through this temporary realm, just like you. I write about finding joy and meaning after loss and hardship, through the lens of science and spirituality.

Just a regular lady from Michigan sharing stories from a life fully lived. I'm nobody special — just someone who has loved, failed, learned, and kept going. Here to show the world how to love a little better. Welcome to the lighthouse. 💛

my name's meg. i'm a literature scholar, critic, and editor. mostly i'm a reader. i also watch films, and run long distances.

literary fantasy and horror author (upcoming: fantasy romance) • analyzing fiction and literature • pondering theoretical physics • educating myself and others on prose technique

Teacher of classics and MTS candidate. A Stream of Words (link by name) is my Substack for long familiar essays on the spiritual and the ordinary. She Shoots Colors is home to my thoughts about music, film, and art of all sorts.

6-foot-2 Jew from Tulsa, Oklahoma. Searching for meaning in hyperreality. Fanatic of Don DeLillo and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander. Writing in various outlets including, with great reluctance and shame, Substack.

Poems and essays in New Verse Review, SOUVENIR Magazine, The Oxonian Review, and more 🦋

I do not use AI in any of my writing or translations. I write fiction, poetry, essays, and memoir. Books: author of the novel Bones in the Dam, and collections The Quiet Storms of Rainer Maria Rilke, & Twenty Greek Poems, among others.

Writer on motherhood, culture, books, personal finance, belonging and belongings. Editor of Open Secrets Magazine and host of podcast Finders and Keepers. https://rachelkramerbussel.com

Marginalia from a soldier’s education. Views my own.

Doomer with a huge ego (writer).