🎃 A Most Unreliable Narrator Issue #163 October and November 🎄
Another hiatus
Welcome to A Most Unreliable Narrator, the slice-of-life newsletter of GenXer around town, Lisa Rabey. I talk about anything and everything with a bit of swears. I’m glad you’re here.
Dear Internet,
Hello cats and kittens as Carol Baskin would say.
It’s been quiet over here in the lisa-verse. I’ve been putting a lot of work into my fiction, poetry, and prose as of late and not a lot of time into the weekly Sunday newsletters. If you read the latest Lisa Writes Stuff, you will also know it’s Preptober for NaNoWriMo.
Because so much is going on, I’m taking off the rest of October and all of November from the Sunday newsletter for vacation and NaNoWriMo.
The bi-weekly issues of Lisa Writes Stuff and Blotter will still occur. Preptober should be okay but November is going to be a bitch because we’ll be on vacation for 10 days and then the other 20 I will be writing 2500 words a day to meet the 50,000 word deadline for NaNoWriMo on November 30.
December 3 should pick right up again with the Sunday newsletters.
I will be skulking around social media so if you want to chat, here is where you can find me.
See you in a few weeks!
Wonderful Thing
Dirtbag Through The Ages newsletter.
Allison Epstein writes this sassy and snarky look at, well, dirtbags through the ages. All of her skewering is to real historical figures. She’s recently written about King George IV, Saul of Tarsus, Mata Hari, Henry Ford, and Vlad Țepeș.
A whole cornucopia of dirtbags.
Here’s from her piece on King George IV:
Prince George was the oldest son of King George III from the hit Broadway musical Hamilton, and of Queen Charlotte from the smash Netflix series Bridgerton. He was a spoiled, shitty child who grew up to be a spoiled, shitty young adult.
By the time he was 18, Prince George was basically living in a Georgian-era frat house. He spent his time getting wildly drunk, chasing down mistress after mistress, and spending 14 million pounds on horses. Logistically I’m not even sure how that’s possible.
I don’t know how I stumbled onto her work but it’s one of the best Substacks I read. She’s also the author of A Tip for the Hangman, a reimagining of the life of Christopher Marlowe (Shakepeare’s BFF) which I adored. Epstein has an upcoming novel, Let the Dead Bury the Dead, an alternate history of Russia in 1812 which comes out in a few weeks. I’m super excited to read!
Why read Dirtbags Through the Ages: You’re looking for a fun, and well researched, intro to famous scoundrels and assholes through the ages. If so, this is the newsletter for you.
Love and Survivor 45,
lisa x
(Fuck fascists and Nazis!)
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