now available: PRESS (A) TO START 01

Newsletter subscribers can now order up the first issue of PRESS (A) TO START, my a twice-a-year, print-only, newsletter-exclusive premium (though decidedly imperfect and raw) zine: this first issue features LAST CHRISTMAS IN JULY: A COWARD’S EXORCISM, an exploration of the complexities of the present and the narratives of memory and of regret following my mother’s death in April, my final act of settling both her estate and my mind. Sign up here to subscribe and request a copy - and be patient: since I’m assembling these myself, I’m estimating three to six weeks from request to your hands.

New TSR: Christina Rice on THE GODFATHER

In which author and archivist Christina Rice becomes TSR's first return guest for a fantastic and SPOILER-FILLED (READ: DO NOT LISTEN IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THE FILMS OR READ THE ORIGINAL NOVEL) conversation (a year in the making) in which we wax ecstatic on our shared love of THE GODFATHER: rewatching, the overrated, the underrated, the "goddamn charming" Santino Corleone (and the brilliance of James Caan), my first read of Puzo's original novel (and accompanying public service announcement), Carlo's pasta sauces, my defense of PART III, Grogu shrines, STAR TREK, and more. Check out the episode – BUT ONLY IF YOU'VE SEEN THE FILMS AND READ THE ORIGINAL NOVEL – here.