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You’ll never get away from the sound of the woman that loves you: The Retro Report, vol. 44 (opens the original)
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I wrote last week about my wonderful correspondence with Thriftbooks while I waited for Caro’s The Passage of Power to arrive. While those kind emails sustained my spirit, they did not solve the more pressing issue, which was that I was between books. An unacceptable state!So I went to the library and picked up a few slim novels I’d been thinking about but for w
Pleasure in the fantastic, curiosity about the real: The Retro Report, vol. 43 (opens the original)
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So, Jessica what did you do with your Labor Day break? Thank you so much for asking, I went out dancing and basked in the final days of pool season and I finished Master of the Senate!!!! For all of you playing along at home, that is the third book of the LBJ series. The only other published volume is Book Four. It’s the CARO YEAR HOME STRETCH. Here is a KidPix illustration of the volume I have just completed:<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://su
Enlarge and celebrate its beauty: The Retro Report, vol. 42 (opens the original)
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Even though here in my fair District we are going to be shvitzing through our clothes and getting 10,000 mosquito bites per day for the next ~6-8 weeks, Labor Day weekend is here to herald the waning days of summer. It’s been a very bad run of obits lately which also feels very the-party-is-over, no? I could’ve done without the back-to-back losses of Wendell Berry and Gloria Steinem, personally. If you have any favorite pieces of Berry’s, I would love to read them. Leave them in the comments!<a
But you’ve got dreams he’ll never take away: The Retro Report, vol. 41 (opens the original)
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Well everything feels dimmer now, without the radiant rhinestone-shine of Dolly Parton. <img alt=" " class="sizing-normal" height="980" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!g3z1!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-po
I’ll find your lips in the streetlight: The Retro Report, vol. 40 (opens the original)
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Sometimes I talk myself out of including things in this newsletter because I think everybody already knows about that. But then I must remind myself that monoculture is dead and there is almost no such thing as a thing that everyone knows, and that is why, this week, I am telling you all about Carly Rae Jepson’s 2015 masterpiece, Emotion (or, to be technical about it, E•MO•TION). Part of me thinks, don’t the people already know about this? But what if you DON’T? Or what if you knew but you’d for
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