The Butcher's Darling.
Jennie Lightweis-GoffAwful but cheerful.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 271 | Founded | 3 years ago | Last Issue | 8 days ago |
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Stephen Foster was born the day that Thomas Jefferson died.
Stephen Foster at 200, my podcast with producer Jason Lee Guthrie, will be released week-by-week starting on July 4, 2026. Save it.
Every millennial and GenXer lives on Boomer Standard Time (BST). We are not old; we are middle-aged at wors...
Empathy is your superpower.
Desire, confession, and Phoebe Maltz Bovy's THE LAST STRAIGHT WOMAN (2026).
This essay is part 3 of my kind-of review of Phoebe Maltz Bovy 's The Last Straight Woman (2026). For part 1, here’s “Big Daddy’s World Famous Love Acts Men and Wo...
Have a C.O.W.
It's a conspiracy of women!
Print shows a right side view of a cow, full-length, standing; also shows a front view of a hoof: L. Prang and Company (1872), from the Library of Congress.
The name on the headshot and the headstone.
On Phil Spector, Richard Pryor, and driving them Hush Puppies you've got on.
Today, NPR published a story on Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor — daughter of the germinal comic Richard Pryor — who has just written a book about her shifting relations...
Big Daddy’s World Famous Love Acts Men & Women
Sex, Danger, Beauty, Conspiracy, Lavender
In the shower after late-night transit from the wilds of Wisconsin to the swamps of New Orleans, I am pulling out the knots in my hair with the assistance of various unguents and brushes. It’s some...
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Flâneuse, scholar, and writer. Jennie in jammies, Dr. LG on the dotted line. Author of Blood at the Root (2011), Captive City (2024), Porgy's Cart (2026), and The Chef's Sabbath (soon).
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