Archive - Letters of Rec

Serial and the perils of success

Also: fake documentaries, assignments in the age of AI, I talk about Tombstone on the radio

Dec 3 •

Justin St. Germain

October 2024

Teaching In Cold Blood (again), trigger warnings, “pornoviolence"

Oct 31 •

Justin St. Germain

September 2024

how I became a true crime professor, colonial crime stories, more recommendations

Sep 30 •

Justin St. Germain

August 2024

Unpacking My Library

Also: bad times at my old workplace, a new essay, why I'm anti-list, Shoah, hometown movies, etc

Aug 28 •

Justin St. Germain

June 2024

Stacks on Stacks on Stacks

Also: Walter Benjamin's Illuminations, the Apu trilogy, a brief hiatus

Jun 10 •

Justin St. Germain

May 2024

Cactus Country, vibes novels, documentary binging

Also: basketball injuries and a little thanatology

May 7 •

Justin St. Germain

April 2024

Ancestry, antinatalism, Flanders red ales

Apr 8 •

Justin St. Germain

March 2024

It's no Justified, but that new Capote show is pretty good

Also: the enrollment cliff, sports orgasms, bean recommendations

Mar 7 •

Justin St. Germain

February 2024

A Literary Loss, the Oral Tradition, White Blindness

My brief studies with N. Scott Momaday

Feb 7 •

Justin St. Germain

January 2024

"At War With the Obvious"

William Eggleston, favorite reads of '23, a good first one of '24, etc.

Jan 8 •

Justin St. Germain

December 2023

Talking in Memphis

Literary prose, memory holes, more yums

Dec 12, 2023 •

Justin St. Germain

November 2023

Neoliberal nonfiction, NBA bandwagoning, Japanese snacks

Sometime around fifteen years ago, somewhat unconsciously, I switched over from writing and teaching exclusively fiction to writing and teaching almost…

Nov 7, 2023 •

Justin St. Germain

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