Archive - Stephen Thomas' newsletter

Alice Munro Slaps, Actually

Contra Lorentzen

May 20 •

Songs of Another World

An essay about Canadian art and experience republished while thinking about Alice Munro

May 17 •

February 2024

Hello To All That, part 1: How I moved into a good house

My answer to why I'm so happy in New York

Feb 26 •

The story of me leaving LA and deciding to move to New York

It seem like you can change your life when you're 39

Feb 12 •

April 2023

Lay summary of Gwern’s “Clippy”

“Clippy” is a short story describing one way AI could kill everyone in the world

Apr 9, 2023 •

March 2023

Incidents from the life of my Los Angeles neighbor who sacrificed for his family who did not appreciate him, and my own departure from the West

Mar 28, 2023 •

February 2023

Quick notes on EAG

Really very extremely quick

Feb 28, 2023 •

L12: Bye Letters Home, hi New York

I don't want to die without shaking up a leg or two / Yeah I wanna do some chatting too

Feb 13, 2023 •

June 2022

172 notes to myself on art written while sitting on my bedroom floor facing my open closet in Toronto

Hello so this is something I wrote I’ve never been able to publish, for reasons that will probably become clear once you read it: it’s really long, it’s…

Jun 13, 2022 •

Hi, I am restarting the ‘stack.

Jun 6, 2022 •

January 2021

Hi, I would like to say I have a simple goal, but it seems I’m pretty flexible in practice.

Jan 31, 2021 •

December 2020

Hi, Bullet points:

Dec 6, 2020 •

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