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Nov 10, 2025
When a project is about anything and everything, it's also about nothing — and who'd want to read that?
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Oct 31, 2025
Hundreds of thousands of words later, what's to become of this newsletter?
Oct 23, 2025
His writing shaped my life, and he's now at a literary and cultural apex. But is the mysterious postmodernist's work still any good?
Aug 6, 2025
'I hate poetry,' I used to say, half joking and half serious. But which half was which?
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May 27, 2025
A Q&A with 'Andor' writer Tom Bissell on narrative structure, quick deaths, and getting T-boned by Star Wars history.
May 20, 2025
A Tuesday special: Five mini-essays in one newsletter!
May 13, 2025
What am I even trying to do here?
May 8, 2025
It takes a leap of faith to connect language and experience—and sometimes we land in the abyss.
Mar 26, 2025
Come on, it was 50% off on Amazon! You didn't have $10.50?
Feb 8, 2025
The secret recipe for literary genius—revealed at last after 100 emails!
Feb 7, 2025
On falling in love with a tossed-off phrase, and what that says about writing—my own and everyone else's.
Jan 21, 2025
The children's book author, known for his dark and hilarious tales, is focused on the 'harder questions' of growing up.
Jan 17, 2025
Come see Roland Barthes battle the Village People in a knock-down, drag-out brawl!
Jan 5, 2025
But only sometimes! And also: not really all that hard!
Dec 26, 2024
On large-format cooking, and larger-format writing.
Dec 14, 2024
Welcome to Newspeak, the Matt Gross way!
Dec 9, 2024
Cogito ergo scribo!
Dec 3, 2024
Curses! Foiled again!
