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Where authors gossip, geek out and let off steam: 15 of the best literary Substacks

More and more writers are publishing newsletters – but which are worth your time? From Margaret Atwood to Hanif Kureishi, George Saunders to Miranda July, here’s our guide to the best A peculiar aspect…
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The Guardian · Where authors gossip, geek out and let off steam: 15 of the best literary SubstacksBy Sam Leith
Super niche non-fiction book from a novelist who is writing/reflecting about writing and the influences to her thinking. I cannot recall how I came across this or why I picked up other than the first section on “Plants” touched on ecology and the landscape with big mentions of Jeff Vandermeer’s Southern Reach books and Timothy Morton’s concepts of Dark Ecology and Hyperobjects. There are some distinctly female oriented views on the books topics (‘Plants’, ‘Planets’, and ‘Bleed’) and that offered up some powerful, persuasive notions of women as receptors — of the good and bad — and the body becomes the site for dealing with these issues. As the husband of a breast-cancer survivor, I’m very sensitive to this notion that the civilization’s literally high toxicity writ itself large within women’s bodies. Those observations by Wilk spurred me to purchase my next three reading projects, so we’ll see where that rabbit hole takes me!
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#deathbylandscape #elviawilk #margaretatwood #jeffvandermeer #southernreachtrilogy #timothymorton #ecology #hyperobjects #plants #sciencefiction #ex_libris_jz

The Handmaid’s Tale Finale

The final episode of The Handmaid’s Tale is out. I watched it before work this morning. I have two spoiler-free (or if not spoiler-free, then spoiler-light) thoughts.

First, I was curious about how they were going to set things up for the sequel show, The Testaments. I thought maybe they would resolve some story lines in ways that would change things for the next show. They did not. They left almost everything right where it should be. I was of two minds on that. On the one hand I thought it was good because I want the next show to succeed. On the other… I really wanted to see some happy endings that would have ruined The Testaments. Maybe not ruined, but significantly altered. So… yeah.

The other take away is pretty much the same as last week’s episode. Did I ball my freakin’ eyes out while watching it? Why yes, yes I did.

I seriously hate what this phenomenal show does to me. I don’t want to feel those feelings. I don’t want to live in a world that is sliding out of control toward the seemingly inevitable Gilead outcome. Can’t reality just fast forward through all of that shit and treat it like an archeological study?

Yeah, it’s a fantastic show and my tears and I are going to miss it when it’s gone.