First things first! Here are the upcoming workshops, where I’m extremely candid about my experiences, provide insight from conversations about publishing, and we have great, open discussions—find the member discount here: The next edition of Newsletter Workshop 2.0 will be this coming Tuesday, May 5, at 11 a.m. EST. The Self-Edit Workshop, its follow-up companion, will be on Tuesday, May 12, at 11 a.m. EST. The brand-new Everything You’ve Wanted to Know About Selling a Book will be on Tuesday May 19 at 11 a.m. EST. The next Food Essay sessions will take place each Tuesday in June at 11 a.m. EST. I hope you’ll join us.
Our next Salon on May 26 will feature Ariel Saramandi, to discuss her book Portrait of an Island on Fire—we’ll discuss writing about climate change and feminism from the periphery of empire! Members join free and have access to the Salon Series archive. Catch up on the recent conversations: Tell Me How You Eat author Amber Husain and Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Hidden Costs of the Perfect Playlist author Liz Pelly.
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Watching
We’re gonna switch the order and do watching first this month—wild of me! I finally watched the documentary about comedian Marc Maron, Are We Good? on my flight from D.C. to San Juan while exhausted from the tour and having woken up at 2 a.m. choking because of allergies (trust that I’m not exaggerating their severity). I’m a longtime Maron fan and the perfect viewer of a documentary about coming back to life after a major loss; I like that that kept in so much curmudgeonliness. His resentments and concerns about his career, too, hit me so close to home. Thus, my subject line today. I highly recommend it, and I know it’s also available through Kanopy.
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