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Contents
2024 Newsletters
- Books Don’t Sell Themselves (March 24, 2024)
- What me worry? (February 24, 2024)
- Word Games (January 19, 2024)
2023 Newsletters
- A Slave to the Machine (December 13, 2023)
- On Cats, Catastrophes, and Caregivers (November 16, 2023)
- What Does “I support Israel” Mean? (October 17, 2023)
- Why Unions Matter (September 17, 2023)
- Nothing Special, just Life as We Know It (August 23, 2023)
- The Manichean Candidate (July 26, 2023)
- Two Literary Losses (June 15, 2023)
- Gee Whizz (May 25, 2023)
- Ephemera Are Us (April 19, 2023)
- How the Empire Thinks (Bulletin, April 6, 2023)
- The State of the Onion (February 25, 2023)
- Wringing Out the Old Year (January 4, 2023)
2022 Newsletters
- With a little Help from my Friends (November 15, 2022)
- A House by the Side of the Road (September 17, 2022)
- Why the Revolution Will Not Be Televised (July 9,2022)
- Six Random Days in May (May 24, 2022)
- On Making Literary Connections (April 22, 2022)
- On Conflict in Ukraine and in Two War Stories (March 13, 2022)
- On Making Black and Other Lives Materially Matter (February 16, 2022)
- Becoming a Bookseller to Beat the Odds (January 18, 2022)
2021 Newsletters
- Remembering Forgotten Lore (November 14, 2021)
- “The freedom and exhilaration of moral insensibility” (October 25, 2021)
- The “Beautiful Madness” that is Exarcheia (September 10, 2021)
- Bringing Home the Bacon (August 18, 2021)
- It’s Only Money (July 18, 2021)
- Masters of Florid(ian) Political Prose (June 4, 2021)
- A Penny for Your Ism (May 20, 2021)
- The Gripes of Roth (April 5, 2021)
- Random Notes of the Season (March 23, 2021)
- Getting the Better of a Protagonist and Vice Versa (February 19, 2021)
- Looking Behind and Beyond the Sacking of the Capitol (January 8, 2021)
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