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Newsletter on literature coming to you from Buffalo, NY.

A writer trying to make it. It turns out that essays are fun to write.

Bart Schaneman lives in Seoul, where he works as a journalist. He’s also the author of the novel The Pot Job (Trident Press).

Sam Kahn writes the Substack Castalia.

scifi reader by love, software engineer by trade. Will work for cheese, or a granulating watercolor. Maybe I’ll write a book of my own one day. \ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddf7

Stephen Akey is a memoirist and essayist who lives in Brooklyn. He is the author of Raccoon Love, Culture Fever, and College.

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.

Author of a memoir and a poetry collection. Essays in Missouri Review, Kenyon Review, and The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Sci fi writer, writer about Nepal, sometimes about politics and culture

writer | filmmaker | cartoonist

Serializing a realist otherworld novel entitled "Age of Peace." My tastes and sensibilities are in the line of: Chatwin, Naipaul, Kundera, Coetzee, inter alia.

Yiddishkeit in the South. I like to write, teach, and think about Jewish culture at the intersections of art, history, and mysticism. www.danieljkraft.com

Writer, editor, author: mardeanisaac.com

I'm a writer who lives in Southern California. Before there were words, there were pictures. A sampling can be seen here: andrewprinter.com.

Fiction writer, essayist, creative writing teacher. Assistant professor of creative writing and English at Oklahoma Baptist University and PhD student in English at Oklahoma State University. Author of five books.

I’ll be adding content some day, God willing. Most likely about literature, books I’m reading, etc.