quite useless

A newsletter about interpersonal drama, death, and other inevitabilities.

Thoughts on writing, life, and the messiness of being a person in the world.

Dispatches from the author of The Idiot

bad jokes only

Essays and inspiration based on the golden age of magazines, marrying the glamour of the Jet Age with the intellect of the subversive & the artist.

Criticism, essays, etc.

Commerce, culture, and curiosity

On writing fiction after Girard

It's a store. It's a magazine. (It's a fashion shopping newsletter.)

Bridging the two cultures of science and the humanities

Pursuing the mysterium tremendum et fascinans and writing at the intersection of philosophy, culture, art, technology, and religious wisdom.

A critical review of beauty culture from “the woman the beauty industry fears” (the Sunday Herald).

essays about literature, culture, and so many feelings.

Absurd, honest comedy delivered twice a weekish through the vulnerable personal essays of Alex Dobrenko: tv actor+writer to some, father to o̶n̶e̶ two, and friend to all.