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What a long August it was. It stretched out like a temporal cat in the sun from 28/7/2019 to… right now. Space and time was purred at in a…

I’m going to have a break.
 
 I recently noticed that Laura Olin’s newsletter takes August off, and as every book I have picked up recently has burst into flame in the heat, I have decided to do the same. It’s a bit of a hitzefrei.
 
 When I return, refreshed and full…

Bird Shaped | Etch To Their Own #133

Michael Akuchie’s You Are The One God Forgot uses a Russian doll of imagery to convey…

A Short Note From The Highlands | Etch To Their Own #132

No real newsletter this week as I have been wandering around the highlands, or the mythical wandering kingdom of Foglandia, as it sometimes seems. I’m very pleased to have seen a lot of hyper local signs off one-track roads which…

Everyone Cried

Lydia Davis has a new piece in the New Yorker called Everyone Cried. Like a lot of Lydia’s work, the story picks at the little…

He brought us some mush to fry

The Anonymous Diary, an essay in The Paris Review by Kathryn Scanlan is a kind of confession about using…