Sweetness & Ruin
Sugar—from the 17th-century plantation to today's epidemic of diabetes. Racial capitalism, monoculture, cake.
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I Cannot Quip to Save my Life (opens the original)
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A Substack piece by is making the rounds at the moment and it’s a good one. Courtney—author of many books, including Before and After the Book Deal (and a Substack of that name) and book-coach-publication-seer extraordinaire takes on the question of why having tens of thousands of followers on social media does not seem to translate into any thousands of book sales.1 (Here’s the post:<span style="color: rgb(255, 10
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