The Republic of Letters
The Republic of Letters, Sam Kahn, Daniel Kraft, Damon Falke, Isaac Kolding, Bart Schaneman, Andrew Printer, Natalie Arriola, Stephen Akey, Tex Gresham, W. G. Lloyd, Brett Puryear, Terrance Lane Millet, Rose BertrandThe Republic of Letters is a hub for literary and cultural writing; and a new, genuinely democratic type of digital publication.
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What Wendell Berry Teaches Us
Dear Republic,
Wendell Berry just passed. It’s hard to think of a better way to honor him than by digging a good old-fashioned post hole.
-ROL
WHAT WENDELL BERRY TEACHES US
A few years ago I set the first post for a garden fence. Two m...
Asocial Media
Dear Republic,
was last spotted working all day, like all day, in the New York Public Library’s Main Reading Room. Now we glimpse this punk rock god living his best life social media-less.
-ROL
ASOCIAL MEDIA
TikTok — is that the one wh...
This Week at The Republic of Letters
Dear Republic,
Two prompts that flow oh-so-elegantly into one another.
- Tell us about your habits — good ones or bad ones, how you developed them, how you feel about them, what they reveal about yourself. Please write to republic.of....
How Ray Bradbury Made It
Dear Republic,
We seem to have a thing for writers who sweat it out. Steven Bryan Bieler — channeling Jonathan R. Eller’s biography — has the goods on a writer who really had to work for everything he got.
-ROL
HOW RAY BRADBURY MADE IT...
We Are the Backrooms
Dear Republic,
This is a really great piece. Among many other things, it manages to cover several themes that have come up elsewhere in The Republic of Letters — like therapy and the film Backrooms. But more than that, it gets to somethin...
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The Republic of Letters is a hub for literary and cultural writing; and a new, genuinely democratic type of digital publication.
Sam Kahn writes the Substack Castalia.
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
Damon Falke is the author of, among other works, The Scent of a Thousand Rains, Now at the Uncertain Hour, By Way of Passing, and Koppmoll (film). He lives in northern Norway.
Newsletter on literature coming to you from Buffalo, NY.
Bart Schaneman lives in Seoul, where he works as a journalist. He’s also the author of the novel The Pot Job (Trident Press).
I'm a writer who lives in Southern California. Before there were words, there were pictures. A sampling can be seen here: andrewprinter.com.
Stories both factual and otherwise. And philosophical rants and really whatever the fuck I feel like writing.
Stephen Akey is a memoirist and essayist who lives in Brooklyn. He is the author of Raccoon Love, Culture Fever, and College.
writer | filmmaker | cartoonist
Sci fi writer, writer about Nepal, sometimes about politics and culture
Writer from Tennessee, operating out of Montana. Author of the novel NIGHTBURNER, forthcoming from Minotaur Books in 2027.
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.
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
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