I took my daughter to her skating lesson Saturday morning. The week before she cried and didn’t want to

I wrote this yesterday. I don't know if it says quite what I want to say, but here

I’m skeptical of Pete Buttigieg. He seems like a nice, approachable guy, and the way he talks reminds me

The cathedral of Notre Dame burned yesterday, which was also the day that I learned that Gene Wolfe had died.

Last week I spent four days in Portland, Oregon, at the annual AWP Conference [https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/

Last week I was listening to a recent episode of the podcast Commonplace, featuring a conversation between host Rachel Zucker

Note: I will be discussing the plot of the 2016 musical Dear Evan Hansen in this newsletter. If that sort

Last January I chose the word [https://tinyletter.com/sakeriver/letters/word-for-the-year]Grace [https://tinyletter.com/sakeriver/letters/word-for-the-year] as

It’s been a hell of a year, hasn’t it? But then, it seems like we say that every

(Just a quick note: there will be some spoilers for Sarah Rees Brennan’s novel In Other Lands in this