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

That Stench of Musk in the Air

#16 Apr 29, 2022

Five words that do not appear in this email: Rock, Slap, Smith, Oscars, and Celebs

#15 Mar 30, 2022

No More President's Day for Me, Thanks!

#14 Feb 28, 2022

#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
#1

Jan 29, 2021

If I Have a Newsletter, Then Newsletters Must Be Over – Hello! It's January, 2021Let’s see if this newsletter thing works for me, shall we? I'm not looking t