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On Reading Widely and Weirdly In 2026, read as if your life depended on it.

Read often, read weird stuff, then cheerlead like hell for others to do the same. My latest post contains mentions to @backlisted.bsky.social, BookBub, and other savory morsels.
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A Royal Nonesuch for Our Times How will history see us?

"The parallels to the present are obvious, but they’re not satiric. The deaths are real, and the taking of citizen liberties is a truth that is ever spooling out in greater quantities. There is no comedy now. Satire comes with time in order to ripen it."

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A Royal Nonesuch for Our Times How will history see us?

My latest post is up on SubStack! With the events happening in Minnesota, I took a second to reflect on literature, Huckleberry Finn to be precise, and how it can inform our current moment.

I'd love for you to read it!

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Walls A Little ”Media Vita in Morte Sumus“ for the New Year

My latest is up on SubStack! I’d love for you to read it.

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@backlisted.bsky.social strikes again! Thank you for keeping my TBR list interesting and diverse!

Great book haul this year! This will get me started in 2026!

Redux Welcome back to the Magic Kingdom

So it's been a minute, what with end of summer vacations and the start of my thirtieth school year, but I'm back! Here's my latest post- it's about past trips to Disney, nostalgia, and, of all things, mortality! I'd love for you to read it!

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[REPOST] Cult of Smiles Disney, 2017

New post on SubStack! A blast from the past: While we were in WDW for a full family vacation, on SubStack I revisit one of our first trips to Disney and the feelings that it engendered. Check it out! open.substack.com/pub/brianstu...

Purges, Writing, and the Not So Easy Art of Saying Goodbye Summer is for cleaning out.

Writing is a lot like yard maintenance. Check out why!

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The Workshop It matters. It really does.

I hate writing workshops. I really do. But I had something happen this summer that may change my feelings toward them. It’s up on SubStack right now. I’d love for you to read it.

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3,500 words done on a story today! Nearly a complete draft. Sooo satisfying! Feels great to be at it again!

Relevance in the Age of Decline Welcome to the Downslide

New post live on Substack! It’s about navigating the work world while eyeing retirement, something I’m learning a lot about lately! I’d love for you to read it.

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Beach Nights A Kick-Off to Summer

Beach Nights- a new post on SubStack! I'd love for you check it out.
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Overwrought The Perils of Overwriting

New post up on Substack at open.substack.com/pub/brianstu...

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Peering Over the Edge (and Looking Ahead) On friends retiring, writing books, and building airplanes

So I’ve been thinking about a plan for retirement when that happens in a few years. Here’s an attempt at verbalizing it.

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Rebecca Morrison on Substack

Worth noting.

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Soaking up the solstice. 9:30pm Friday night. Beautiful.

I have a new post up on Substack. I’d love for you to check it out.

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Wonderful night in Saratoga listening to two of my favorite writers discuss their work at the Northshire Bookstore! Congrats Paul O’Brien and Jack Rightmyer!

This is my 30th last day of classes. Wow. I’m letting that one sink in.

Damn Kids Are teens really that different now? Yes and no.

Check out my new post! We've all heard the trash talk about teens, I'm just not sure it's entirely warranted.

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Soggy rider

Went for an hour ride tonight. Halfway out, at the farthest point I could be away from home, the skies opened and it poured. I had to stop once under a tree for survival. Struggled all the way back. When I made it home the sun came out. Of course.

Still got the ride in, though.

A New Place to Hang There's no place like home...

I started a new writing venture! Check it out at: open.substack.com/pub/brianstu...

Is it me, or is Chuck E. Cheese just the minor leagues for casinos?

Working through Angel by Elizabeth Taylor. First heard about this on the @backlisted.bsky.social pod. Really interesting book with lots to say about the pursuit of fame and literary writing vs. “popular” literature. Not sure it’s a universal rec, but I’m enjoying it. Thanks Andy & John, as always!

Trying desperately to set up my SubStack so it's not a steamy pile of poo. Felt the same way about my website, my Blogger site, my Medium site. I sense a pattern...

Stoney's Irish Grill | Schenectady NY Stoney's Irish Grill, Schenectady, New York. 1,864 likes · 36 talking about this · 3,958 were here. Stoney’s Irish Grill has been a local gathering spot for over thirty years. It’s a place where you.....

Nice dinner last night in Schenectady. Never heard of Stoney’s Irish grill but the Guinness was smooth and the food was really good! We’ll definitely head back.

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