Category: Other
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An inexcusably long list of recent substacks
Hey everyone, you should really subscribe to my substack if you’re still reading my work. I have been posting a bunch over there without X-posting here: There’ve also been several paid posts:
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Freud can’t explain transgenderism
Hey all, this is cross-posted from substack. Not all the posts from over there are even coming here, and I think I’ll stop updating this site soon and maybe turn it into a static web page and archive. Substack is just really good, offers me a lot more opportunity to grow. My wordpress traffic has…
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I love reading lists
Sorry folks, I’ve been doing a lot of substack posting, and there are a few posts there that aren’t on here, but I’ll keep cross-posting for a while longer yet! I wouldn’t say Substack is better on a usability front–it’s just healthier, more readers, more growth. Nice to feel like someone is actually reading these…
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What do I mean by “the great books’?
Another post on the substacks! The most common question I get when telling people I’m writing about the Great Books is “What do you mean by ‘The Great Books’?” It’s a question I initially found confusing and perplexing. I’m like, “you know, Aristotle and Plato and Shakespeare and Milton and all the super-classics that you…
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If every white person died tomorrow, PoC Americans would lose all our Great Books hangups
Hey friends. The substacks, I tell you: they really get you. I have two paid subscribers over there and now I’m hooked. Sheesh. Anyway, I’m gonna start trying very slowly to transfer my remaining audience to that platform. So I’m gonna put half the essay here, and then you can find the rest there efore…
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LitHub article on Great Books and transphobia
Hello friends. Some weeks I feel sad I don’t have a fancy popular substack that people pay me money for. This is not one of those weeks. Those substack writers have to produce something at least three times a week–meanwhile I’ve gone at least two weeks without posting anything. No particular reason, just been busy.…
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Albert Memmi’s THE COLONIZER AND THE COLONIZED is and is not about America
Hello friends. It’s a gorgeous day in San Francisco–sunny, blue skies, seventy degrees. The kind of day the California myth was built from. I took the opportunity to do some maintenance on my website. I changed my theme again, because the one I used before was ugly. And of course the new theme had all…
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Apartheid fiction by Black writers, and how it relates to trans fiction. plus TOMORROW AND TOMORROW AND TOMORROW
Hello friends. I continue to read Black South African novels. Wait, did I even mention this was something I’d started doing? I’m not sure. I read both of Es’Kia Mphaplele’s Penguin Classics: In Corner B and Down Second Avenue. I read Thomas Mofolo’s Chaka. I read Peter Abraham’s Wreath for Udomo, which is his roman…
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Paul Park’s City Made of Words
Hello friends, I’ve moved on from Typora! Typora is old news! Now I write in Obsidian. Long live Obsidian. Obsidian is basically the exact same thing, but there’s mobile apps and it’s really good at syncing and there’s a lot of plug-ins, so you can use it as an all-purpose journaling and note-taking app too.…
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I feel about writing the same way I feel about parenting
Just read Stephen Marche’s On Writing And Failure. I enjoyed its erudition and style, but in terms of the overall tone, I wanted to like it much more than I did. I wrote my own cynical guide to writing, as you all know, and it also had an anthemic quality to it, but I guess…