Last Year's Snow

"IN A TRUE DEMOCRACY, EVERY MAN IS AN ARISTOCRAT"

Mostly music.

A literary newsletter by Matthew Spencer, writer, translator, publisher, and general semantic drudge.

travel writing and other things

One third Books, one third Observations, one third Who Knows.

A literary newsletter by Mike Crumplar

Essays about books, films, and ideas. Also: poems and aphorisms.

I’ve been writing novels for decades. I’ve published 10, in the UK and internationally. I know how long books take, how they go wrong, and what persistence they require. My Substack is where I show you my writing life and share some tricks I've learned