sixty-six-point-five: straw poll! (おまけ)
This micro-instalment in service of asking you all a format question!
Here and there I’m accumulating some essay-length pieces or thoughts that are definitely newsletter territory: they’re interesting enough to put out there for friends of the household and those of us who have some shared vocabulary built up, but aren’t things I want to contextualize and first-let’s-define-our-terms for a general audience. Or they’re book reviews for books past their promo windows that I still like and want to think about collaboratively. Or they’re just, y’know, long. Long enough that they themselves would double a normal newsletter’s size.
For example here: I finally watched Fritz Lang’s M (1933) last night and lost my entire mind over it in the best and most gleeful way. But guys, it’s 1100 words all by itself and that was one night of the month. September issue’s going to be unmanageable at this rate.
Hence the question:
How do we feel about little omake mini-episodes, here and there, when something like that arrives? Mostly a bit of litcrit or a spare review: a spotlight on something interesting, weird, or complicated enough that it’s worth a good excavating.
If you feel strongly about it in any direction — preferring the predictable once-a-month format, or would appreciate more digestible bites, or whatnot — drop a quick reply? As ever, I do the writing here, but in my head it’s a coproduction and I don’t want to be newslettering at you.
Thank you for your service, etc. 🫡 I’ve got a lot to say about Fritz Lang. Guys, that movie.