less serious, reading every day, scaling marshmallows

7 or 8 things to share this week

Here are some things worth sharing this week:

• The case for being less serious by Calvin Rosser

• How to read every day at Hulry

  • “…the first thing you should do before building a daily reading habit is to understand why you want to read.”

• Brooklyn novelist moves to a smaller city and then works at a big box store and then writes about it. At The Cut.

  • This goes well with the essay I wrote earlier this week about writing and work

• What I’ve learned from a year on Substack

• Scaling artisanal marshmallows didn’t work. At Business Insider.

  • Kind of a bonkers story

• “Baby Albatross” by Kevin Maloney at Had

  • a short story!

• Your literary guide to the Oscars. At Lithub

  • The books and stories behind the movies

  • Not sure if I’ll watch the Oscars this year, but I saw Oppenheimer, American Fiction, Barbie, and The Holdovers. I think that’s all.

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Book Notes

• I read Private Equity by Carrie Sun this week, purchasing it soon after publishing last week’s newsletter where I mentioned it.

• I’m continuing with Great Expectations (hopefully)

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Last Thing

“Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.” - Great Expectations

Keep going,

-Josh Spilker