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March 14, 2021
It is not a secret that Substack has been courting high-profile people in media with money and resources to leave their staff jobs and publish here instead....
Shame on me to need relief
February 24, 2021
Content warning: Mentions of sexual assault Have you watched The New York Times’ doc Framing Britney Spears? My partner and I have talked about it a bunch...
"Don’t be afraid to go beyond the internet."
February 17, 2021
Rap magazines were my first music journalism love. I read The Source and Vibe obsessively through middle school and high school. Clover Hope is someone I’ve...
On SOPHIE
February 3, 2021
Some night in 2012, the last of the blog era’s salad days, I was taken over by something I’d heard via XLR8R, an at-once minimalist invocation of the house...
"Knowing how to pirate things is a really good tool."
January 27, 2021
I’m really excited to share this conversation I had with Sasha Geffen, an incisive critic and journalist based in Denver whose work I really respect and who...
My president
January 20, 2021
I’m writing this to you on Tuesday evening worried about tomorrow. Instead of what I planned to send today — a really great interview with the critic Sasha...
"These songs exist in our lives and that’s worth interrogating."
January 13, 2021
Photographer: Jatnna Nuñez || Illustrator: Alex Fine At the beginning of December, I hopped on Zoom with veteran music journalist, Jezebel senior staff...
Announcing: Introduction to Music Criticism Seminar For Emerging Women and Non-Binary Writers
January 11, 2021
I’m excited to share that I’ll be offering a four-week introductory seminar to music criticism for emerging women and non-binary writers on Zoom this March!...
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January 8, 2021
Hi friendly readers, I had every intention of sending out a letter on Wednesday. That morning, I had a really exciting conversation for RYWY that got me...
Goodbye 2020
December 30, 2020
I had a plan to end the year with a little wrap-up newsletter, nothing special. I considered making a list of faves — music, books, additional things —...
Housekeeping
December 2, 2020
Hi, friends. Are you tired? Like, very, very tired when maybe you shouldn’t be? I’m tired all the time, in a way that I can only describe as like a psychic...
"When you have wiretapped audio, you think it's all awesome."
November 20, 2020
Brandon Soderberg is a Baltimore-based journalist who covers drugs and crime. He is the co-author of I Got a Monster, a narrative history of the Baltimore...
There is Always More
October 21, 2020
It’s sometimes hard for me to swallow but the writing I’ve done the most and that I’m probably, gulp, best at is music blogging. Not the speedy firsties...
Setting the Terms
October 7, 2020
I haven’t done a lot of book re-reading in the last 10+ years. Article re-reading, yes. Books, not so much. Before about 2007, I used to re-read Colette’s...
September Writing and Recommendations
September 30, 2020
People say no to me a lot, directly and, more often, by saying nothing. Of course this is the plight of the freelancer but what I’ve learned in the last six...
Body Control
September 23, 2020
A few nights ago, I had a dream that my sister and I were at an amusement park. This place had a theme, beauty, and we were instructed to go as part of a job...
“Writing fiction that’s generous means getting real about what you’re giving the reader"
September 16, 2020
Sarah Elaine Smith is a poet, writer, teacher, incredible thinker, and gold-star sticker enthusiast, among many other things. Her excellent novel Marilou is...
Deeper Than Rap
September 11, 2020
For the rest of the month, I’ll be engaging with the pronounced portrayal of whiteness in a handful of novels that have come out in the last year or so....
Some Stuff to Read
September 2, 2020
Does social media make you feel terrible? It’s been making me feel terrible! I have a hugehugehuge deadline on September 24, so I deactivated my Twitter...
Getting Over Yourself
August 26, 2020
I’m a person who has spent a lot of time living in terminal fear. My brain is a chatter box, more daydreamy than plagued by a yappy inner-saboteur but it’s...
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