HeyJaredthe ill-starred letter
The ill-starred letter is substack by Hannah van Binsbergen, author and poet, on literature and the left.
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you'll know what I did last summer (opens the original)
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Subscribe nowDear reader, No more summer folly. Back to barren and hostile reality. In this letter I will tell you a little about what I’m working on. This summer I’ve finished my novel, which is now in production. I’m proud and also a little nervous; in a recurring dream people tell me that they expected something more interesting, more experimental. After all the fiction soul searching that I’ve done, it did turn out a pretty traditional story. Maybe not so surprising, since the m
ill-starred summer special vol II (opens the original)
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ill-starred summer special vol I (opens the original)
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