I think it would be funny to write a newsletter in an advice column format. So, I'm sending out this short email blast to encourage you to send me a question on my contact form. If you have a problem, I will solve it for you.
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My memory of Noah Kahan is friends of mine being excited about him a few years ago. Finally, they said--someone is making pop music about the place we're from. My extended social media circle was buzzing about the prospect. No more would artists from Nashville and LA come down from on high to rap about being the cheer captain on the bleachers, or having Julio get the stretch--they would rap about what it was like to grow up in New Hampshire. I didn't think about it much at the time.
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Venice has a problem: everyone wants to visit. The islands making up the city are frequented by 60,000 visitors a day on average, with up to 120,000 visitors a day on peak. Given the relative small size of the island, this has posed obvious quality of life issues for residents, including but not limited to gentrification. Venice residents have responded in kind: in the last 50 years, the population of just the main island of Venice has dropped from 175,000 permanent residents to 50,000. What is to be done?
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So, I'm no longer just a guy: I'm an author! No longer am I just someone who, if you saw him on the street, would be spat on or kicked or called names. No more am I a little bug you might crush under your shoe. I am something completely different and cooler: an artist, a cosmopolitan man of literary tastes, and most importantly *interesting*. I have written a book and you can read it, today, and I sincerely hope you do. All you have to do is click one of the big blue buttons:
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We are officially less than two weeks out from release! Barring any disasters, the book will come out on August 22nd, 2025. The first chapter of this book was written on March 21st, 2023. I have not, in reality, been writing it for 2.5 years, but from concept to publication, that's how long it took. The next one will come much faster. Now, for what I've been doing:
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The book cover is here! I'm excited to share it with you, and even more excited to see it printed.
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This blog post is inspired by something I recently wrote to Sidney Gish. I said in my email, "I think your music has genuinely taught me something about people and helped me understand others better..." and I think that sounds like praise, which it is, but it's something that is genuinely true when it comes to my writing.
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You need to have at least two blog posts on your website, or else it's not a blog, it's just a page. So, I'm adding this here while we wait for me to start blogging for real. The book is coming along; I'm almost done with my personal round of revisions. Soon I'll be sending it to be edited and read by a couple people for feedback. The cover is coming in a few weeks as well.
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Hey! Welcome to my website. This blog is where I'll be posting updates related to books I'm writing, music that I like, ideas that I had, and other long-form content. Blogging is something about that the internet seems to not be able to shake, no matter how much we try. At one point, we used to even do something called 'microblogging'. Remember that?
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