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"What are people doing with their time on this little blue planet? Perhaps it’s traveling to as many places as possible. Maybe it’s running across sporting events naked. Whatever it is, I want to know. For me, this has been the year of the life story." —Carolyn Wells on the people of 2024.

longreads.com/2024/12/13/a-yea

Longreads · A Year in Reading: Power to the PeopleBy Carolyn Wells

Our annual "Best of" package—now in its 13th year!—kicks off today. This week, we'll publish a Year in Reading reflection from each of the @longreads editors. Today, Krista Stevens shares stories that sparked awe and shifted her perspective in 2024.

longreads.com/2024/12/09/a-yea

Longreads · A Year in Reading: A Shift in PerspectiveBy Krista Stevens

As an essayist of much lesser note, I've been revisiting the essays of E.B. White with great delight and satisfaction, and have been pleased that, thus far, I don't find much to object to in modern terms in his work or controversy beyond the cyclicly fashionable disdain for the Strunk & White book, which is understandable mainly if you're the kind of person who takes guidelines as hard rules. He's just such a distinct voice, and a mentor I've never met.

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The Public Domain Review is something new to me. probably many others too.

But boy what a cornucopia this is. Just the place to go to wean yourself off social media.

Let's face it, hours of checking your feeds - stimulus and response - but what have you got at the end of the day? Presque rien.

A quick check, OK, but get a decent longform up quick and stick with it till the end.

Here's a gem. Kirsten Tambling on Swiss artist Gottfried Mind:

publicdomainreview.org/essay/g

The Public Domain ReviewGottfried Mind, The Raphael of CatsLabelled a “cretin” and “imbecile” in his lifetime, the Swiss artist Gottfried Mind had profound talents when it came to drafting the feline form. Kirsten Tambling reconstructs the biography of this elusive figure, whose savant-like qualities inspired later French Realists, early psychiatric theorists, and Romantic visions of the artist as outsider.

I'm at that stage of pre-publication book publicity where I'm preparing to launch a newsletter. It'll be infrequent, likely meandering, and, I hope, interesting. If you'd like to get updates on publications, events, process notes, and...well, a firsthand view of me figuring out what the hell to put in a newsletter, sign up here!

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Erica WatsonContact — Erica Watson

Joseph Addison -- Sir Godfrey Kneller --
oil on canvas, circa 1712

National Portrait Gallery, London.

creativecommons.org/licenses/b

I used a random number generator to select this portrait. I was mostly* pleasantly surprised by the result, not only because I have an institutional connection with Addison, but also on account of my seeing the portrait strengthening my resolve to read more of Addison and Steele's essays.

* I write "mostly" because I am no lover of the Whig politics in which Addison was steeped.

The painting is one of the set of 43 Kit-cat Club portraits.

>>These portraits are of a group of influential men pledged to uphold the 'Glorious Revolution' of 1688 and the Protestant succession. Founded by Somers, the Lord Chancellor and the publisher Tonson, the club began meeting in Christopher Cat's tavern near Temple Bar, and took its name from his mutton pies known as Kit-cats. Members included Whig MPs and landowners as well as writers.<<

National Portrait Gallery