Year's End: The Writing
Here are my Five Favorite Essays from The Crossover Appeal this year, presented in perfect tear-and-share format, perfect for passing around at your leisure.
Gratitude and What's Ahead
Hello all.
Two quick things in place of a full suite of recommendations this week.
First:
Gratitude. This little newsletter
The Cross Section: Noah Gundersen
It's a deep catalog of songs from a long, rambling career, and with his recent release of A Pillar of Salt, now's as good a time as any to get to know Noah Gundersen.
November 20: A flurry of labor for a moment of tasting
This week’s recommendations hover around themes of quiet meditation while others brace for difficult conversations and chaotic jumbles of noise.
The Cross-Section: TWICE
While the likes of BTS and Blackpink have quickly become the face of Korean pop
music, 9-person girl group, TWICE
November 13: Stuttering in bleach and lights
I think about how good it suddenly is to race with ghosts.
Lowlight - a playlist of this year's best neo soul and r&b
Lowlight - a playlist of this year's best neo soul and r&b. Every track on this playlist is from an album released in 2021, and every album behind these tracks is worth a listen.
October 30 - I cut my teeth on weaker men
I'll be honest, I've never been a Halloween guy. Nothing against it, at least
not conceptually.
October 22: Your patterns are still in place.
When you take a recommendation from someone else, you take a little bit of them into your own index and when you recognize your own tastes in the preferences that someone else has left behind, well, it’s a powerful gift.
Sable: To glide, and perchance, to vibe
In literature, an ellipsis is a gap in the action of the story where the reader
jumps in and fills
