All The Things: September
(What You Missed)
Hey, I did this last month for August and thought it would be cool to do it for September.
The gist is: I put together links / recs every week, but you may have missed a few or forgot to go back or whatever.
So here they are for the month of September, all nicely organized (kinda). Happy fall.
Newsletters You May Have Missed
Article Links:
Tiny rare books. At Austin Kleon.
What happens to all the stuff we return? At The New Yorker.
On when to set rules for your writing by Kevin Maloney. At The Creative Independent.
This post will not go viral by Ethan Strauss
How do journalists distribute their work? Related to what I was talking about above.
The Specific Catharsis of “That Guy” by Anne Helen Petersen
(tiktok rabbit hole coming your way).
The Price of Pop Fandom. At Pitchfork.
Write for your best readers, not your worst readers. by Lincoln Michel
At Counter Craft.
This Ross Douthat profile in The New Yorker.
I don’t read every Douthat column, but his position in between conservatives ande liberals, really resonates with me as a Christian, and a place many of my friends have found ourselves in over the past few years.
Why Guys Who Post More on Social Media Are Seen as Less Manly. At The Conversation.
The Need for Mourning at The HedgeHog Review.
“Like play, mourning holds things in suspension: presence and absence, remembering and forgetting, reality and imagination. By letting us play with what we have lost, and thereby modulate its departure, mourning is a way of treasuring, of asserting value.”
6 Brilliant Authors Who Only Wrote One Novel at The Big Think.
These 38 Reading Rules Changed My Life by Ryan Holiday.
Been writing more at Medium:
3 Semi-Important Decisions You Need To Make About Your Note-Taking System. At Medium.
Say “Yes, and…” to your writing before you say “no.” At Medium.
Congrats, You Found The Best Productivity Software. Now You Have to Be Productive. At Medium.
Level 7856: How I Treat Writing Like a Video Game. At Medium.
Here Are 2 Super-Basic Things That Will Definitely Improve Your Writing. But This Advice May Disappoint. At Medium.
Other media
Picked up “The Very Last Interview” by David Shields, who transcribed all of his own answers to interview questions to learn more about himself—and those asking the questions (book)
Started reading “Losing Our Religion” by Russell Moore, a Christian pastor and theologian (book)
“The Dishwasher” by Stephan Larue (book)
100 Foot Wave on HBO (TV)
Not sure why I didn’t start this season until it was over, but the cinematography is so great. It’s one of the most well-shot reality shows out there, so much so it deserves the title “docu series” lol. I’m a horrible swimmer and can’t surf at all, but I do paddleboard so it’s fun to see people doing amazing things in the water.
Furnace Fest Playlist 2023. (music)
Last Things
“The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn’t know how to read.” — Benjamin Franklin
Keep going,
-Josh Spilker