A Saturday Letter

writing and art about diaspora, mental health, endurance, care

I'm a former Brooklynite, now a librarian in the mid-Hudson Valley, learning to live with the consequences of aging

This is a public notebook of the stuff I've been reading, thinking, and publishing recently.

Think of these as signatures, unbound. Thoughts, explanations, and screeds about the publishing industry by Anne Trubek, founder of Belt Publishing. For the bound version, pick up "So You Want To Publish A Book?" Belt Publishing, July 2020.

essays about literature, culture, and so many feelings.

About books, TV, movies, and higher etiquette. Also God sometimes. Also Taylor Swift.

Written from a journalist in a red state, this newsletter is personal, political, sometimes funny and always raises hell.