Recommended by Phil Christman
This is Slow Reading, a newsletter of criticism from a philologist and writer who often has thoughts that his editors aren't sure they want to pay for.
Dan is one of the best cultural critics alive at the moment. You don't get a lot of people who are simultaneously totally committed to classical literature, radical politics, opera queenery, American football, Catholicism, and Dragon Ball Z. You usually get maybe one or two of those at best.
on reading, teaching, and writing American Literature | "to see beneath both beauty and ugliness; to see the boredom, and the horror, and the glory." - T.S. Eliot
1. It's a clever formal constraint for a newsletter 2. Her writing is consistently excellent 3. Of how many people can one say, simultaneously, "This person has written some of the best criticism about Bernadette Mayer currently available" and "This person is a top-five all-time best Chapo guest"