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Author of SEX OF THE MIDWEST (Galiot Press) | NPR's Best Books of 2025 | Electric Literature Best Short Stories | Kirkus Starred Review | NPR Weekend Edition Interview | Featured in Best New Books in The Washington Post and People Magazine
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Life in a tourist town (opens the original)
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When I bought my house in downtown Madison over twenty years ago, there were some things I knew and some things I didn’t. I knew that I was signing myself up to live in a small town. That was okay. I grew up in a small town. I was okay with living in one again as long as it wasn’t the same one.Subscribe nowI knew I’d be living in close quarters with other human beings, in a house that was literally attached to the house next door. I was used to that, too. I’d spent most of the last ten yea
The best novel about AI you will ever read: A conversation about THE ENDED WORLD with Libbie Grant (opens the original)
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Thank you , , , and many others for tuning into my live video with ! We talked Libbie’s novel and ghost writing and publishing in general and whether or not Libbie would join the great consciousness if she could. Check it out!<img class="install-substack-app-embed-img" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Rst0!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%
The rattling junker car that is the world (opens the original)
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It may not seem this way all the time (or especially lately), but society is surprisingly resilient. It holds together. It holds together even as it rumbles along like a rickety old junker car whose door is being held on with rope and rubber bands and hope. Even during the pandemic, which was some serious chaos, order mostly held. Paychecks still came. People still stopped at stop lights. Children went to school, even if that, too, was chaotic.Subscribe nowSociety and the social structure that m
Mary Oliver, Karl Marx and other random mid-September thoughts (opens the original)
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First, today is the official pub day for the amazing novel, THE ENDED WORLD, by my friend . You can read my interview with her here and a fantastic review of the novel here. Then you should go get yourself a copy because this is a novel unlike anything else you have read lately, I promise you.<a class="button primary" href="https://robynryle.substack
I finished a sketchbook, maybe my first ever! (opens the original)
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Despite of a bit of a slow-down in sketching, I did finish this sketchbook. It might be the first sketchbook ever that I’ve totally filled, which feels like an accomplishment. And I did it in like two months? During a heat wave and various other bullshit.Then I started a new one! Look at me go!I miss my bird/seed catalog period, which is to say, I miss the simplicity of waking up and knowing exactly what I was going to sketch or draw next. I like routine. I like order. Some days it’s very hard t
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