Homo Vitruvius and American Samizdat function houses for my weekly artistic writing and mental exploration. HV persists as my unique and first Substack in these pursuits; AS arose in resistance to Trumpism and is devoted to its defeat. From memoir and poetry to fiction and drama, principally in HV, to historical past and political philosophy, predominantly in AS, you’ll discover it right here, built-in throughout the 2 stacks by means of a artistic and mental sensibility I hope you’ll discover invigorating. The stacks could also be subscribed collectively or singly in Handle Subscription.
Your help for my writing on these two stacks lifts me up. Your readership and your likes, your feedback, shares, and suggestions, and your free and paid subscriptions allow me within the artistic undertaking of my writing life and in my mission to supply a renascent gentle towards the darkness: artwork, data, tradition, and concepts for a free, tolerant, and democratic individuals. Thanks to your curiosity and help.
Hail Vitruvians!
I make this temporary midweek interruption of your helpful time to carry to your consideration my newest publication off Homo Vitruvius.
Common readers of this stack will recall that simply a few months in the past, I completed practically a 12 months of writing right here a primary draft of my memoir Motive for Being within the World, to be revealed sooner or later in ebook type. An early chapter of the memoir, titled “Burn the Boats,” recounts my efforts to piece to collectively the sparse data I had of my father’s distant childhood in Ukraine, in pre and revolutionary Russia. It’s a hybrid chapter of artistic nonfiction, by which I finally imaginatively recreate the day my ten-year-old father and his 12-year-old sister left their small Jewish shtetl to be rowed throughout the Zbruch River into Poland on what grew to become their seven-year journey to the USA. The chapter originates in writing I composed in a cabin on the California coast in 2005, simply weeks after my father’s demise at 94, 20 years in the past this August.
I’m delighted to say {that a} revised excerpt of that chapter seems at present in Judith Journal, {a magazine} revealed by the indefatigable author, and extra, Elissa Wald and devoted to publishing the work of Jewish writers. I labored with fellow author and Judith nonfiction editor Howard Lovy. I’d be honored when you learn the chapter a primary or second (revised and improved!) time there. Likes, feedback, and shares for me and the great people at Judith could be vastly appreciated, too.
Whereas the excerpt at Judith is free, when you’d wish to learn extra of Motive for Being within the World, which now resides within the Homo Vitruvius archive till ebook publication, month-long entry to the book-length work prices solely $2 for the month-to-month subscription.
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August fiction off Homo Vitruvius
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This Saturday, half 5 of What We Had been Pondering Of: “Radical Confessions”
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Whereas American Samizdat is on one thing of a brief hiatus, What We Had been Pondering Of, within the many points it addresses, may be very a lot within the artistic spirit with which American Samizdat goals to handle the present American second.
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I proceed to handle the nationwide and world calamity of Trumpism, additionally within the spirit of American Samizdat, every day on Substack Notes: https://ajayadler.substack.com/notes
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Brief and lengthy fiction actively being composed behind the scenes as a result of I barely sleep, and once I do, I dream of writing.
Thanks to your time! Thanks to your consideration! Thanks for studying! Bear in mind, you learn; due to this fact, the author exists. Summer time on!
