
Journalism + Essays + Thoughts on Writing from Leah Sottile
| Platform | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly | |
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| Issues | 107 | Founded | 6 years ago | Last Issue | 8 days ago |
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Yesterday I spent my day inside a hooded sweatshirt and a spreadsheet, and when I came up for air I saw this headline: “Fort Hood Shooter’s Execution Will be Public and Streamed live, Pentagon Says.”
How could I be surprised? There is no b...
I write books about terrible women, so of course I read the most talked about novel of ‘26
I’m late to the discourse. This summer, more people than I can count texted or asked me if I had read Claire Caro Burke’s debut novel, Yesteryear; I...
Six years ago this month, I started this newsletter at my dining room table. It was COVID, wildfires were making everything miserable and I was in the midst of an obsession with Flannery O’Connor, who inspired the title of this publication....
A view I’ve had thousands of times. Not Metallica. Roseland Theater, 2018. Photo by me.
A million years ago, I was at an open mic at Auntie’s Bookstore in Spokane when a writer took to the microphone to read some letters by long-dead write...
Fires in the Night author Matthew Wolfe giving very eloquent answers at Powell’s Books (Photo courtesy of John Rudoff)
Here’s one thing I always tell myself about my writing: if there’s a topic I’m thinking about, I’d better get on it; som...
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Author of Blazing Eye Sees All and When the Moon Turns to Blood. Host of Bundyville, Two Minutes Past Nine, Burn Wild, Hush. Freelance journalist.
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