New Year, new platform: Putting your money where our mouth is
setting sail into new waters Hello and happy new year to all our lovely sandwich-eaters & sword-wielders! You might notice that this email isn't coming from...
Shit Sandwich
Readers, sword-wielders, and sandwich-eaters, Today’s post is meant to be about a Dutch sandwich called the hagelslag, which is buttered bread with some...
How to Respond to Critics
“Art Critic” hy Norman Rockwell, 1955 Any writer faces critics, and any life led in public, even to a small public, faces the same. As much of my work has...
Me Me at the Moors
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Notable Sandwiches #78: Gyros
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where we trip merrily through the bizarre and mutable document that is Wikipedia’s List of Notable...
Substackers Against Nazis
Hi readers—Below is a letter to the Substack founders that I helped draft as part of a group of publishers seeking answers to questions about the platforming...
Natural Born Killers
Shelley Shannon, on trial In 2018, a woman walked free after twenty years in prison. In wire photos from her 1993 trial, 46-year-old housewife Rachelle Renee...
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
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Eight Links for Chanukah
Happy Chanukah! Talia is presently turning in her revised book manuscript and David is otherwise indisposed, so in lieu of a sandwich column we're presenting...
Autocracy Now!
As I write these words, an American election is going on, in the way that American elections go on, and on, and on—years and months of un-fun pageantry as...
Regarding Henry
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Notable Sandwiches #77: Guajolota
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, alongside my editor David Swanson, trip merrily through the odd mutable ranks of Wikipedia’s List of...
On the Big Terrible Thing
A week ago, I picked up Matthew Perry’s memoir, Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing, a book about a life plagued by addiction that came out a year...
Talking Turkey
Howdy all, David and I are taking the week off to rest and recharge (aka: move house, and frantically work on book revisions, respectively), so we’re leaving...
Full Windsor
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Notable Sandwich Notes
It’s been a busy week here at S&S Industries, for a variety of reasons both personal and professional. So when we realized that the regularly scheduled...
Fuck You and Your Word-Stealing Machine
The Luddites: Man vs Machine This week, The New Yorker, an august magazine from which I resigned in national disgrace five years ago, dedicated its entire...
Master of Tasks
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Notable Sandwiches #76: Gua Bao
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Israel-Palestine: 100 Years of Coverage
1932 fundraising map for a Jewish State With Talia focused on one last book deadline, I decided to use this opportunity to try to make some kind of sense of...