reminder : rob's clever substack,

Youprobably already know, but I’ve been working a substack for a while , aiming topost once a week or so. I started last fall, working on a book-length essayaround literary community, responsibility and other considerations ("Lecture for an Empty Room"), and wasalso interspersing a variety of short stories, as well as a lengthy essay I hadworked on my collaboration with Denver poet Julie Carr (there was a lengthyabove/ground press essay I slipped in there as well). I figured the weekly-ishprompt would push me to further work into potential book-length thinking, akinto the burst of one hundred days that became essays in the face of uncertainties (Mansfield Press, 2022). While I attempt to only include apaid post every third or fourth time (I can’t help but keep much of it open,not wishing to exclude readers), there are options to pay monthly or annuallyetcetera. I’m pretending it’s a trickle of income, but we shall see where itgoes.

Whileour big ridiculous driving drip (and now the mound of work required up to the above/ground press anniversary event this Saturday) has knocked me a bit out ofmy momentum, I have been working on the beginnings of a further book on genealogy,given I’ve been learning further details on the new biological threads of mygenealogy. There are some interesting places I’ve been going on this thing, butthe sections aren’t quite ready for publication yet, but hoping soon. Genealogyis something curious: most of us care only as much or as little as we wish, andsome of these connections are so tenuous: what does it all mean, and whatshould it mean?