Resource Roundup #16
For the week of August 6th.
Are you from a rural community or the American South? Share your story with us to be published in an upcoming newsletter!
ICYMI, this week we’re talking about suburbia, chain restaurants, and simulacrum theory over in the newsletter. I could talk about this stuff all day. Also, another plug for readers— share your rural stories with us! Share your southern stories with us! Midwest! Desert! Forests! We welcome anything outside of NYC/Chicago/LA, basically. Anything that gives voice to an area that doesn’t often get representation.
While researching for this week’s newsletter, I dug into this article on Allen Ginsberg’s poem “A Supermarket in California”, commodification of American food systems, and how Covid-19 disrupts supermarket chains. Into it!
Rolling Stone making the case for a Civilian Climate Corps by taking a look at Louisiana and the possibility of a future “resilient south.”
A great interview with Alexandra Kleeman in The Paris Review about realism, apocalypse, Californian landscapes, and how to write a novel for the modern age.
Charles Foster for Emergence Magazine on language and nature, asking the important question of can “language do anything other than constrain and tame the wild world?” I really enjoy his points on both the necessity and the faltering of words.
Yes, an upcoming newsletter will be delving into Outer Banks, which, like everyone else, I finished in less than 48 hours. In the meantime, enjoy this TikTok of a gorgeous acoustic cover of Left Hand Free, where you too can realize you’ve been singing the lyrics wrong all these years.
Also, while everyone is rewatching Twilight and pretending it’s 2008 again, this TikTok brings me an unexplainable peace.
Pine Forest II by Gustav Klimt, 1901.
@myself on this one. 4 more chapters to go!!
Enjoy your weekend, friends. See you Monday.