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060: On Food Resilience
On gleaning and "putting food by" + Jean Craighead George, Wendell Berry, and Doodle Dispatches + keep scrolling for Brandon Taylor & The Austen…
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056: A Hero is a Person Who Blunders into an Open Cave
It's been 2 years since I started this Substack and the weekly practice has brought some of the deepest truths home. Plus, a poem by Stephen Dunn, a…
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072: without snow, there’s a neverness about the cold
thesauruses, the generosity of tagging in OpenStreetMap, sitting in the sunlight
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049: What Do Writers Do All Day?
Graham Greene, the writing process, and what's next for SBB
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059: Creativity = Slow Down
Brian Rutenberg, remediating distraction, the benefits of a good night's sleep, and why we need love, art & beauty in addition to good work
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075: Maeslantkering
a day trip with friends, a Dutch storm surge barriers, and a passing reference to Marlow Granados's novel, "Happy Hour"
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Courtney Cook
063: A Mind is a Star-Chart in Reverse
Arkady Martine's "A Memory Called Empire;" communication & culture; and finding the other barbarians + Doodle Dispatches, McMansion Hell, & gothic…
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066: About a Small, Brave, Beautiful Book
Claire Keegan's "Small Things Like These" will shore up your courage and remind you to hope against hope. Plus, the OG SBB essay featuring "Wolf Hall…
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069: diving into the astronomical twilight of our fears
midwinter in Iceland, an insanely huge moon, Beowulf, and of course, monsters and fairies
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070: generations of men with tobacco in their beards squinting at the bridges of Königsberg
isomorphisms, rhodonea topology, rhetorical logic and the writings of Elif Batuman
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077: On Writing Letters
a letter to a soldier, Nina Stibbe's "Love, Nina," chat groups as an epistolary form, letters as evidence of human connection + links to Charlie…
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073: wrestling with the ambivalent angels of our future
AI, cyborgs, Donna Harraway, and Blade Runner
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