A Stacked Deck
What makes someone a likely Substack star is an ability to cultivate one-way, parasocial relationships with readers.
What makes someone a likely Substack star is an ability to cultivate one-way, parasocial relationships with readers.
Sometimes irony is a painful awareness of our own absurdity.
When I give myself over to the self-writers I love most, I am transformed.
The pulsating song of billions of seventeen-year cicadas.
Henry James’s fiction shows how aesthetic misjudgments can be connected to moral vice.
If you get out in your yard with a push mower, everyone who passes wants to talk with you about it.