Subscribe to get full access to the newsletter and website. Yes, they will be paid a good and fair wage for their work.Īnd I’m going to host a book club, where we read books by underrepresented American writers, talk about those books, and, when we’re lucky, talk to the writers of those books. Every two weeks, I will publish an essay from an emerging writer, someone with three or fewer publications) and share a brief interview with them about their work, who they are, who they hope to become. I am also going to use this space to feature the work of others. That’s what I hope to do with this newsletter-tell one hell of a story about the world we’re living in, the culture we consume, the things that bring me joy, the things that infuriate me, the things I think we should talk about. People curate what they put from their lives into the public sphere but a good writer makes what they curate one hell of a story. What mattered is how they made me want to understand the world from their perspective. It didn’t matter how different the bloggers were. Louis, a budding filmmaker in Los Angeles. A mother in Utah, a designer in the Bay Area, a foster parent in NYC, a baker in St.

Every day I looked forward to opening my Google Reader (RIP) and reading about the lives of complete strangers who seemed so compelling. Though I didn’t realize it at the time, I was also growing as a writer, thinking more about how to tell a story, how to get readers to care about the story. For years, I wrote an obscure little blog few people read and that was mostly fine because I could share my thoughts with myself and three or four other people. I am very attached to things that fade into obsolescence.

I’ve been thinking about blogs lately because I miss them. The Audacity is a newsletter from Roxane Gay, debuting on January 11, 2021.

The audacity of people