The American Brutalitarian Interregnum

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Hail Vitruvians!

Rather than a single piece of writing on offer this week, I have three different productions of mine to tell you about and encourage you to read. Before I get to them, though, I want to thank my latest paid subscriber, Sarah C. Merrill. Thank you, Sarah! I’m reading, researching, and writing a lot these days, pretty much every day, and every time I receive notification of a new paid subscriber and feel that support, I do the work with just a little more inspired energy.

First among the writings today, my essay “Rescue Me,” about my late brother, Jeff, was published yesterday morning in a Substack publication called The Memoirist. The essay appeared on Homo Vitruvius almost a year ago, which means hundreds of you have never read it. It would please me very much if you went there to read it this time around. I think you’ll like it.

Rona Maynard

, a richly talented writer and memoirist herself, said of it, “Brimful of love and insight, this is one of the most affecting family memoirs I…