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So long, Substack
Gotta bounce, there's too much Elon in the air
Catriona Menzies-Pike
A haunting debut
Here I am, taking Ghost for a test-drive. This is the new home of the newsletter formerly located here.
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Shopping List Season
The greatest holiday tradition of all: grumbling about end of year lists.
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Big Feelings
Cashing in on anger and despair.
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Two new reviews and a lot of nail-biting
'Your vote, your choice' – thus spake Julia Roberts.
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Field notes: literary libertarians
Be careful out there.
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Big thanks to my creative muse
Does it really matter if an author uses ChatGPT to help them write their book?
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Tree Failure
School's back. Autoethnography? It's in the dictionary.
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Memo: Best Books (Q1, 21C)
On content strategy, empty lists and the maw of cringe
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Postcard from Grenoble
I got voxpopped in Grenoble over the weekend as I was strolling through a park. The journalist, who was from the local TV station (yes, they still have them here, along with independent bookshops, small museums, music on the streets, cafés open after 3pm), wanted to know how I was
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The Bunk of Iceland
Bloomsday on an island (not Ireland, not the Is-land)
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Recommendation Engines
On non-algorithmic recommendation, paywalls, and What I'm Reading lists