Greetings, my fellow bookworms!
It’s the first Monday of the month which means it’s time for our monthly Subscriber Writing Roundup!
But, before we get stuck into links, last week we featured two excellent pieces:
- ’s look at the book that set him on the path to anarchism.
- ’ brilliant short story — “Don’t sit still.”
And, we’re recommending three more incredible Substacks this week:
- ’s — exploring the armies that are, the armies that were, and the armies that might have been.
- ’s — Meditations on art, family, and making my way in the world.
- ’s — Short stories, a serialised novel, and Eleanor’s memoir.
Now onto the subscriber writing. What follows are 27 links to great pieces of writing from BTMU subscribers. From explorations of hopeless exhaustion to an old legend from the city of Lahore, there’s something for everyone.
Dive in!
Caroline writes about the summits of life in "it's always high noon."
In this 'partial memoir', on the theme of 'risk',
remembers his grandfather, who died when Terry was ten years old.
A chipmunk reminds author
how innocence can be used to kill innocence.
We all grew up eating Corn Flakes, but
writes intriguing information about the controversial founder John Harvey Kellogg.
Sri Juneja and Dana Miranda discuss how to teach financial literacy to kids and children's books that can help.
In the Everglades in 1893, Stomp Freedomfoot and Gesuvio the Turtle find refuge as two outlaws smuggling Wildgrown dynamite with the manatees, until a crew of pirates arrive with harpoons and a hunger for furred whales. From the one and only
That’s all folks!
Me, too! Thanks Mikey for including me in the Roundup.
Thanks for the rec Mikey!