Friday is Boost Day

I found these and loved them. You're welcome.

Jan 28, 2022

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I’m starting something new today. The second and fourth Fridays will be Boost Day, where I share some wonderful essays I’ve found along the way. Did you find some, too? Share them here! And be sure to talk about any of these below.

In the comment section.

Because that’s what comment sections are for. (Gentle nudge)

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Writing

Learning to See Double

This is a newsletter about writing, but I need to lead with my daughter today: not because I am that kind of parent, but because when writing about giving the imagination free rein, the best place to start is with a six year old who has not yet forgotten how to do that…

3 years ago · 2 likes · Amber Sparks

Non-Boring History

The Last Tea Partier

George Washington shared a first name with him, they were both white guys, and they both fought in the American Revolution. Otherwise, the two had almost nothing in common. I don’t need to tell you who George Washington is. But George Hewes? He needs an introduction. I can tell you he was once a celebrity: He was the toast of Boston in 1835. That year, …

3 years ago · 10 likes · Annette Laing

Agents and Books

Who Owns What?

Hi friends…

3 years ago · 17 likes · 9 comments · Kate McKean

Letters of Note

'I hate everybody including you'

Admittedly it’s thin, but there is definitely a silver lining to the pandemic: for the best part of a year we have all been granted a bulletproof excuse to turn down pretty much any invitation, and I, for one, am grateful. Before long, however, we will need to restart the excuse generator and begin declining things awkwardly again. For that reason I wan…

4 years ago · 29 likes · 2 comments · Shaun Usher

SoNovelicious, Books & Reading & More Books

Celebrity Book Clubs

Hi readers, Oprah is the pioneer of the celebrity book club, which began in 1996 when she introduced Oprah’s Book Club as a segment on her hugely popular Oprah Show. Since then, it has continued in some format and now has a home on Apple TV+. In choosing many different books over the years, obscure titles have become bestsellers selling millions of copie…

3 years ago · 5 likes · 2 comments · Gayla Gray

Front Row & Backstage

Sid, Johnny & Me: Live and Up Close With the Sex Pistols in San Antonio, 1978

Armed with safety pins, ripped clothes, and bitter punk vitriol, UK’s Sex Pistols marched across the mostly southern stretches of the United States in January 1978. In fact, January 2022 marks the 44th anniversary of that abbreviated US onslaught that crammed seven aural and visual tornadoes into a scant ten days. And then…poof…

3 years ago · 1 like · 4 comments · Brad Kyle

moviewise: Life Lessons From Movies

The Meaning Of Life

Image by L.E. Wilson from RedBubble If you could live 1,000 lives, what would you learn? What would you be able to find out and apply to your life that would help you now? Do you want to know a secret? Good movies let you delve into the lives of others and learn from their experiences. Well-made…

3 years ago · 8 likes · 8 comments · moviewise 🎟

A Pryor Thought

3 Famous Awards With Incredibly Dark Origin Stories

"All is vanity, nothing is fair."—William Makepeace Thackeray Who doesn’t dream of climbing to the peak of their profession? Almost every industry under the sun has one award or another to recognize doing just that. Actors secretly covet holding the definitely-not-phallic golden statue of a naked male knight presumably named Oscar holding a “sword…

3 years ago · 9 likes · JJ Pryor

These are my picks for today. They’re all, you might notice, from Substack. So much good stuff out there!

I’ll do this again in a couple of weeks. If you find some gems of your own, you can share them here and I might use them for another Friday Boost.

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Friday is Boost Day

I found these and loved them. You're welcome.

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