The Occasional 1
Today saw the first issue of The Occasional, a off-shoot of The Fortnightly (which recently reached issue 170), for paid subscribers of the older newsletter. Both are on Substack.
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This first Occasional (the second will come in a month’s time) features my summer reading plans, short reviews of other books, a post on James Shapiro’s new book The Playbook: A Story of Theater, Democracy, and the Making of a Culture War (a fascinating story about the Federal Theater Project of the late 1930s), the lovely documentary Birdsong, the renovated Folger Shakespeare Society, and typewriters.
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