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Finn Schubert

The Most Glorious Pasteboard

From a review of one of Paul Monette's novels: Every act, every event is cut and re-cut by the author's sparkling prose and bizarre imagination to give us new facets, new depths and new insights. The characters aren't quite real and--this is the author&

The Madonna Secret by Sophie Strand

I've just finished reading Sophie Strand's The Madonna Secret. I love the voice in which the book is written -- where Miriam is looking back on her past, where Miriam can tell us the moments in which she wishes she had understood more or acted differently

Satisfaction

Today I gave a talk at a career panel for people interested in LGBTQ advocacy. Afterward a young trans person came up to me and wanted to talk about what to do when you were the first trans person, how do you balance taking care of yourself and trying to

What Does It Mean to Squander?

I’ve been wondering if there is a productivity book for those of us who spend all of our time chestfeeding, or, if away from our baby at work, stuck in the lactation room whenever we can find a moment between meetings. It turns out everything I thought I knew

Old black and white photo of man at a workbench repairing a shoe.

Maintenance as a Creative Act

Why did I never question my desire to "grow my newsletter"?

Interview: Taking Our Desires Seriously

A conversation with Shea in the Catskills, creator of Tarot as Questions

Ambivalence, Irreversibility, and Leaning Into the Wonky Parts

I gave birth eleven weeks ago, which means I now have the culturally fraught experience of living in a postpartum body, even if my postpartum body happens to be that of a man. And my body exists in a particular way in relation to my baby—I wake in the