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Hello lovely subscribers/friends/excellent humans! I am currently hard at work on my book revisions, so you won’t be seeing too much from me until the new year, but I wanted to pop in and share some upcoming changes to this newsletter (they’re good, I promise).

A NEW NAME AND A REFINED PURPOSE

Since this newsletter’s inception, I’ve changed its name several times (I’ve also changed MY name a couple times, but that’s another story for another day). From Gathering to Hermitage to The Writer to Socially Awkward to Assembling Remnants…none of these names have felt like they fully fit the newsletter. I think this is partially because this newsletter covers a lot of ground— cultural criticism, personal essays, film, and literature (to name a few subjects).

When I changed my newsletter’s name to Assembling Remnants my intention was to make this space more academic: to focus primarily on archives and literature. But I kept writing personal essays! And I kept noticing that my readers (you!) resp…