Past newsletters
January 2023: A love letter to Wednesday Addams
October/November 2022: The crazy ways we try to sell ourselves (agent speed dating, Twitter Moodpitch)
August/September 2022: Packing for a road trip is like editing a story
June/July 2022: The story behind the story of my miscarriage in Ecuador (of trolls and triumphs)
April/May 2022: Are all personal essays about trauma?
February/March 2022: Recovering in the cemetery
January 2022: My 5 favorite books of 2021 (that you’ve probably never heard of)
December 2021: 5 uneasy pieces — towards a philosophy of the everyday
November 2021: Checking a town’s creative climate
October 2021: When have you said, “I could live here”?
September 2021: Travel planning for the apocalypse
August 2021: Are you fully human? Let’s hope not.
July 2021: Searching for a 1000-year-old bird
June 2021: Dressing for work when a cafe is your office
May 2021: The loneliness of the long-distance novelist
April 2021: Steal like a bookish magpie
March 2021: On throwing books across the room
February 2021: Flopsy, Mopsy, and Biopsy
January 2021: Recipe for a travel essay
December 2020: You can’t Google Translate the Mojave
November 2020: Ew, people, or What army ants teach us about home
October 2020: When you get joint custody of a manatee
September 2020: It’s never too late to write up that trip
August 2020: Writing in borrowed rooms