03.18.19

W.S. Merwin, the degenerate grape, illness, & more.

Well! Here we are….

Let’s say (1) this first month will be free-to-all and then we’ll take it from there (2) we will aim for a minimum of two newsletters a month, with a general desire to return to the one-newsletter-a-week of the TinyLetter’s heyday (3) eventually there will be pictures of Boswell the dog that are exclusive to this newsletter (…) but not for this particular outing because he is asleep somewhere deep beneath the furniture and I do not wish to bother him.

I find myself thinking rather ambitiously about this space! It occurs to me one could do a lot of things with it. Not just commentary or essays but things like interviews and so on. We’ll see. Oh yes! We’ll see.

If you subscribe to this newsletter you are probably, already, aware of the long essay I wrote about mononucleosis, early Christian debates about the resurrection, and viruses, but if you aren’t, well, good news! You can read it. OK, that’s all the self-promotion we’re doing in this one. (I’m not sure of the long…