Paul Constant Is Reading and Writing in Seattle

By Paul Constant

Once a month, I send a free email with pieces that I've written, books that I've read, and stuff that I've seen and thought about.

Previous issues

Edgar Allan Poe Vs. The Internet

#21 Sep 30, 2022

Not a great month for literature.

#20 Aug 31, 2022

If you can't take the heat, stay off the increasingly warming planet

#19 Jul 29, 2022

#18

Jun 30, 2022

Averse to the metaverse, inverse of the multiverse – I was disappointed, but not surprised, to read that Seattle author Neal Stephenson, who invented the
#17

May 31, 2022

A Short Walk to Nowhere in Particular – Hi there,I'm in the pits right now, friends. The news is all heartbreaking, the weather in Seattle is
#16

Apr 29, 2022

That Stench of Musk in the Air – In the week since Elon Musk announced he was buying Twitter, he has already encouraged racist and mis
#15

Mar 30, 2022

Five words that do not appear in this email: Rock, Slap, Smith, Oscars, and Celebs – Hello!Roughly three-quarters of the population in Seattle seems to have entirely let their guard down
#14

Feb 28, 2022

No More President's Day for Me, Thanks! – Hello!As I've written multiple times (sorry) the collected edition of the comic I created with artist
#13

Jan 28, 2022

First They Came for Maus... – Back when I blogged multiple times a day for a living, I loved a good story about some crank trying t
#12

Dec 31, 2021

A List of Lists – The fifth and final issue of Snelson: Comedy Is Dying, the dark satire about cancel culture and come
#11

Nov 29, 2021

Are We Ready for The Great Letdown? – Earlier this month, for the first time in almost two years, I double-masked up and went to one of the
#10

Oct 29, 2021

Fear and Loathing in Pumpkin Spice Season – First, and most importantly: If you live in Washington, have you voted yet? If you're not in Washingt
#9

Sep 29, 2021

Art Makes Our Cities, So Our Cities Had Better Keep Making Art – I want to call your attention to a letter that my friend Tim Lennon, director of LANGSTON, recently w
#8

Aug 30, 2021

Paul Constant Is Reading and Writing in Seattle - Issue #8 – I haven't been posting on Twitter very much lately. Sometimes the news feels too terrible to comment
#7

Jul 27, 2021

Karaoke, Interrupted – Here's how fast feelings about the pandemic have changed in my peer group over the past month: About
#6

Jun 25, 2021

And I Would Walk 44 Miles, and I Could Not Walk 44 More – I've been doing a lot of interviews for my comic Snelson: Comedy Is Dying this month. (You can read t
#5

May 27, 2021

There's no "i" in "Comics." (Well, technically there is, but not in a metaphorical sense.) – To be totally honest, I hate promoting my own writing. Sometimes I literally cringe when I hit the re
#4

Apr 30, 2021

Between Two Moderna Shots – Dear friends,I'm very excited to announce that the first issue of my second full-length comic book, S
#3

Mar 25, 2021

Who's getting hosed? – I don't mention it often, but one of my weirdest (and most fulfilling) gigs is that I sit on the nomi
#2

Feb 28, 2021

February: Sometimes I Order Packages Just to Remind Myself That I'm Alive – Those of you who followed me when I was active on Instagram know that I have a 7-year-old rescue grey

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