Where am I now?

I’ve moved these tiny letters to Substack because its interface is more pleasing than TinyLetter’s. I vastly prefer the name TinyLetter, though, and wish I could have stayed. But Substack offers a nice comments feature and the text layout is less fidgety, so here we are. Nothing gold, etc.

Thank you for following me here. This is still a free email, and this one’s short and quick. I have some quick reading recommendations to offer today, for your trouble:

Any good binge reads out now? Rust Belt Femme by Raechel Anne Jolie: This tender memoir set on the outskirts of Cleveland explores working class femininity, economic and emotional precarity, and the author’s political and sexual coming of age in the late 1990s and early Aughts, a confusing as hell time to be a young woman. (When is it not?) I devoured this slim volume, and would watch the hell out of a Netflix adaptation.

Any essential books coming soon? Put this on your reading list for March: A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance, a brilliant new hybrid essay collection of memoir and cultural criticism by poet and critic Hanif Abdurraqib. This book is going to leave you breathless and exhilarated on a chapter and sentence level, I promise.

What can I say about this except “oh no”? “Remembering Rahmbamarama, the Obama Era’s Most Zealous Fan Community” from Jezebel, a retrospective of a very active LiveJournal community devoted to thirsting over Rahm Emanuel, oh my god.

What are you reading right now? Recommendations, please.