The Republic of Letters
The Republic of Letters, Rachel Kramer Bussel, Micah Cash, Christopher Hazell, Wim, Brandon North, Ramya Yandava, Lillian Wang Selonick, Tash, John Gu, Nik Prassas, Theo Lipsky, Jeffrey Lawrence, Ain Khan, Mardean Isaac, The Corner for Rambles, emigrant lines, Alex Livera, Clement KilleatonThe Republic of Letters is a hub for literary and cultural writing; and a new, genuinely democratic type of digital publication.
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Leaving the Lord’s Service
Dear Republic,
We’ve had a lot of pieces in The Republic of Letters exploring religious callings. Former minister shows us the other side of the coin — how “church hurt” can play out and the religious prove to be as flawed as anyone else...
The Millennial’s Dilemma
Dear Republic,
For the past year has been helping to class up our act on LitStack. This recently-delivered talk neatly bridges the ongoing divide between academia and more public-facing reading and writing.
-ROL
THE MILLENNIAL’S DILEM...
This Week at The Republic of Letters
Dear Republic,
Thank you to the several of you who switched to a paid subscription this week. It’s important! — and lets continue to spotlight and uplift many different writers.
We have two ongoing prompts — “Fight” with a deadline of O...
Can Writing About Rice Cookers Be Enough?
Dear Republic,
For our Transformations prompt, we had a couple of really long pieces, both of which are well worth reading. Part of what we like so much about this piece from is that it does something rare — dealing with the reality of w...
MacKenzie Scott’s Last Days in Two Nations
Dear Republic,
Substack really is a big tent isn’t it? — take for instance LitStack’s unlikelist ‘Stacker, MacKenzie Scott.
-ROL
MACKENZIE SCOTT’S LAST DAYS IN TWO NATIONS
If you are a writer it is hard to escape it. If you are a writ...
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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.
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
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.
I’m a writer, editor, and content strategist. I write about culture, technology, Christian spirituality, the arts, work and leisure, and more.
I’ll be adding content some day, God willing. Most likely about literature, books I’m reading, etc.
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."
Poems and essays in New Verse Review, SOUVENIR Magazine, The Oxonian Review, and more \ud83e\udd8b
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.
Reader. Writer. Tea drinker. Brassica fancier. Kelpie lover. Strunk and White devotee. Lives and works in small town Australia.
Serializing a realist otherworld novel entitled "Age of Peace." My tastes and sensibilities are in the line of: Chatwin, Naipaul, Kundera, Coetzee, inter alia.
Omnium-botherum shilling-scavenger, well-meaning Goose
Marginalia from a soldier’s education. Views my own.
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.
Poet, writer and traveler through this temporary realm, just like you. I write about the bird-spirit that continues to shine in the face of loss.
Writer, editor, author: mardeanisaac.com
A writer trying to make it. It turns out that essays are fun to write.
British writer living in Eastern Europe. Writes prose novels and short stories which deeply involve the lives of the people of south east London. Enjoys long walks, black coffee, and collecting secondhand books.
Writer and artist. Based in London.
Doomer with a huge ego (writer).
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