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Thoughts about books I read, the work of writing and publishing, and life

Newsletter · By Blake Butler · English · Paid tier available · Official site

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Aug 16, 2026
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  1. Issue · Aug 16, 2026

    Wolfgang Hilbig's The Interim (opens the original)

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  2. Issue · Jul 22, 2026

    Scott McClanahan's Fights! (opens the original)

    Excerpt · Neutral tone

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  3. Issue · Jul 14, 2026

    Outdoor Modest Mouse in-store 2 weeks after 9/11 (opens the original)

    Excerpt · Positive tone

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    I’ve been sorting videos I took in the early 2000s of shows I recorded, mostly in or around Atlanta. I don’t know why I started with this one except it was easy to isolate in the file. It sounds pretty good. I like the clothes people are wearing in the audience briefly. I like that it was two weeks after 9/11. More so than that, make sure to check out Mark Baumer’s documentary “I’m Making a Documentary” without fail. </d

  4. Issue · Jul 9, 2026

    Rizza, Chasin, DeShell, Curran (opens the original)

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    Everybody seems to love stories about crime, particularly murder, and the uncanny specificities of detail that become ritualized in any profane act. It’s so effective as source material that most books or shows don’t bother to play with the form itself at all: it’s enough to just have a dead white girl show up in a field somewhere, and let the thing play itself out.But for me, the central act is never as compelling as all the arcana, and the twists hidden in the form. You take the infernal kerne

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