Greetings, fellow writers! On Monday, it will be time for our next Subscriber Writing Roundup post. With that in mind, please can you comment below: One, and only one, link to a piece of writing from your Substack A one sentence description of the chosen piece, written in the third person
In this short story, Japanese-American David Okamoto decides to follow in his father’s footsteps and enlist to fight in the Vietnam War. What he searches for is glory, but what he’ll find is something much, much darker.
You are not making this easy for me - or maybe - I am not making it easy for myself as I have to choose between two..... choice made with consideration of this blog, the books that made us - a book review:
"Zork offers his thoughts on the books of our modern day Humpty-Dumpty (Yuval Noah Harari) and the sorry state of the world they so perfectly exemplify."
Anthropologist Justin S. Bailey travels back to the 1830s to voyage with the young Charles Darwin on his five-year journey around the world to explore the notion of how much the act of wandering inspires our grandest ideas. https://thosewhowander.substack.com/p/voyaging-with-darwin-how-much-does
Kameron Sanzo unpacks the etymology of "burnout," and investigates how energy language informs our experience of, and our contribution to, the phenomenon of burnout. https://www.electrotonicletters.com/p/burnout
Rolando Andrade, from Outside the Therapy Room writes about the repetition of emotional and behavioural patterns and illustrates what he wants to say with a short fiction story
In 'Be Grateful for What You Can Throw Away', once and future freelancer Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson shares a writing technique that has served him well for forty years.
In Children Recreated for Life, Zoe Carada writes about a children health and wellbeing measure enforced in postwar Germany, inviting us to reflect on the horror of doing harm in the name of doing good. https://zoecarada.substack.com/p/children-recreated-for-life.
Matthew Long interviews the Paris based author Samuel Lopez Barrantes and reviews his new book, The Requisitions. https://matthewmlong.substack.com/p/someday-you-might-want-to-remember
In this short story, Japanese-American David Okamoto decides to follow in his father’s footsteps and enlist to fight in the Vietnam War. What he searches for is glory, but what he’ll find is something much, much darker.
https://open.substack.com/pub/practicespace/p/okamoto?r=1tks3b&utm_medium=ios
You are not making this easy for me - or maybe - I am not making it easy for myself as I have to choose between two..... choice made with consideration of this blog, the books that made us - a book review:
"Zork offers his thoughts on the books of our modern day Humpty-Dumpty (Yuval Noah Harari) and the sorry state of the world they so perfectly exemplify."
https://zorkthehun.substack.com/p/the-not-so-smart-books-of-yuval-noah
Anthropologist Justin S. Bailey travels back to the 1830s to voyage with the young Charles Darwin on his five-year journey around the world to explore the notion of how much the act of wandering inspires our grandest ideas. https://thosewhowander.substack.com/p/voyaging-with-darwin-how-much-does
Kameron Sanzo unpacks the etymology of "burnout," and investigates how energy language informs our experience of, and our contribution to, the phenomenon of burnout. https://www.electrotonicletters.com/p/burnout
Konstantin Asimonov writes about a children's book that is at the same time a postmodernist masterpiece: https://tapwatersommelier.substack.com/p/no-obliviontale-with-details
Sutee recounts his top culinary experiences in Peru, drawn from seven years of explorations around the country. https://www.howtoeatinperu.com/p/my-favorite-food-experiences-in-peru
Rolando Andrade, from Outside the Therapy Room writes about the repetition of emotional and behavioural patterns and illustrates what he wants to say with a short fiction story
"Why do you get caught up in someone else's decision?" https://open.substack.com/pub/rolandoandrade/p/why-do-you-get-caught-up-in-someone?r=20ov80&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
In 'Be Grateful for What You Can Throw Away', once and future freelancer Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson shares a writing technique that has served him well for forty years.
https://extramuros.substack.com/p/be-grateful-for-what-you-can-throw
In Children Recreated for Life, Zoe Carada writes about a children health and wellbeing measure enforced in postwar Germany, inviting us to reflect on the horror of doing harm in the name of doing good. https://zoecarada.substack.com/p/children-recreated-for-life.
Thanks, Micky!
Peter Clayborne explores how the situation in Palestine might mirror previous times when direct action movements worked to influence global events.
https://open.substack.com/pub/anarchyemergencelove/p/palestine-and-the-shock-of-victory
Let a child show you the best prize to win on an Easter egg hunt.
https://robinreardonwrites.substack.com/p/the-best-prize
Hermann J. Diehl explores Ansel Keys's vast influence on American eating; was the influence good or bad? https://www.subconsciousfat.com/p/who-was-ancel-keys
Terry Freedman rarely attends meetings willingly, and in this post he explains why, based on his experience of three insanely dysfunctional meetings: https://open.substack.com/pub/terryfreedman/p/three-memorable-meetings
Kevin LaTorre finds that faith is beyond intellect and into mystery: https://kevinlatorre.substack.com/p/christ-burns-the-intellect
Sheila Dembowski discusses how mindfulness has helped her to keep her priorities straight in her Kindness Boomerang essay entitled "Just Breathe"...https://sheiladembowski.substack.com/p/just-breathe