Roy Edroso Breaks It Down

Grouchy Medievalist knows his shit and (crucial distinction) can make it comprehensible and interesting. Doesn't update enough, alas!

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We can always use a little fresh poetry now and then, which happens to be as often as this fresh poet updates.

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This guy knows something about politics and governance and also talks about things like the World Bank that are undercovered.

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It's ELLIS WEINER dammit!

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She says things like "Somewhere a biographer refers to 'the vein of sadism that runs through Lawrence's writing,' as if it's a fact. The accusation is extreme and sensational enough to be attractive to me..." What's not to like?

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I know there are a lot of feminist Substacks out there but Karen has a great eye for small stupidities and revelations that other writers miss. Look!

- Roy Edroso Breaks It Down

Manages a neat trick -- is appropriately cynical about politics, yet always pleasant to listen to rather than sour or bitter. Wish I could do it!

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What can I even say.

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Scott Clevenger not only makes movies, he makes movies cry -- with laughter! Or maybe it's you who will cry (with laughter) as he eviscerates crap pix ancient and modern. Fun!

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This guy's brilliant and practically nobody knows. Dazzle dweebs at parties by knowing his work!

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Michael Webster is one of my favorite photographers and, better still, he can explain himself, so if you can't see he'll lead you.

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Politics and New York stuff, breezy and pleasant.

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As usual he quit, oh well

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One of the few writers on here who is always a genuine pleasure to read.

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Tim's been on the scene forever and knows everything about rock from sea to shining sea. Better still -- he has the first-rate critical intelligence to make that knowledge count. I always come away from his writing knowing and feeling more than when I came in. Like music? Tim will take you higher.

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👍🏻THE Scientology dope sheet! 👍🏻

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I just found out critic/arts editor Mark Rifkin has a Substack and what fun it is, too!

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"Take care, be well, and mark the location of the nearest high ground."

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Because of headlines like "Are Nellie Bowles, Jonathan Chait, the Atlantic, the New York Times going to apologize for journalistic malpractice?"

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America still makes great film critics.

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The ferocious Talia Lavin. Engage.

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One of the all-timers.

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Fun, nice style, give it a try.

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Very perspective-y perspective. You'll see.

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HTML Mencken is back, baby.

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You don't know this smart guy but you should.

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From the food labs of a great chef

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Sticks out her tongue and says "Arrgh."

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One of the best, always worth the effort (and it is effort, sometimes; one current topic is the "general human vine-and-fig-tree shortage" in the "post-agriculture post-metalworking pre-industrialization pre-globalization human economy." But you will learn!)

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Christgau. Need I say more.

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Have you noticed or suspected new fronts opening in the war on women? Filipovic keeps you up to date on the troop movements.

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Give them 5 minutes, they'll give you the world.

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800 pound gorilla. Unavoidable.

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