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On Meghan Daum's "The Problem with Everything" and the problem with everything
Jonathan Malesic
Jan 6
And a summary of my writing this year
Jonathan Malesic
Dec 24, 2019
What I learned as an accidental sushi chef
Jonathan Malesic
Dec 17, 2019
This newsletter and the next one are going out on Tuesday rather than Monday (for secret reasons). I hope that doesn't throw you off too much. My artic…
Jonathan Malesic
Dec 3, 2019
I have been thinking about two things -- one a matter of life and death, the other not -- that seem, at first, unrelated. The less serious one is a len…
Jonathan Malesic
Nov 18, 2019
The most ceremonial ceremony I ever attended was a canonization. This was in 2010, when Andre Bessette, a humble brother of the Congregation of Holy Cr…
Jonathan Malesic
Nov 4, 2019
The big takeaway from this brief edition of the newsletter: I have a new essay at Plough Quarterly out called "The Noonday Demon." It's about acedia, a…
Jonathan Malesic
Oct 21, 2019
I have trouble with the word capitalism. I am, as you know, critical of the way we work in America today, but unlike most others who are similarly crit…
Jonathan Malesic
Oct 7, 2019
Thomas Merton wrote in his journal 70 years ago, "One of the most terrible fears is the sensation that you are likely to become, at any moment, the pro…
Jonathan Malesic
Sep 16, 2019
To get you in the Labor Day spirit, I wrote a short essay for America magazine about the dignity of work and Pope Leo XIII's radical vision of labor ri…
Jonathan Malesic
Sep 2, 2019
I'm writing you from the Collegeville Institute in central Minnesota, adjacent to the campus of St. John's University. I'm here for a writing retreat w…
Jonathan Malesic
Aug 5, 2019
I've told the story of burning out and quitting my dream job as a tenured college professor many times in different venues: in conversation, in print, …
Jonathan Malesic
Jul 1, 2019
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