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001: Survival By Book
Let’s begin with a hypothesis: reading a printed book—cloth-bound or paperback, bought or borrowed—is one of the most disruptive things you can do.
Jul 19, 2020
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Courtney Cook
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091: A Letter to the Brave, Bright, and Beautiful Graduating Class of 2026
Searching, sharply funny writing on the culture we swim around in and the stories we tell ourselves to survive.
Jun 7
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Courtney Cook
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090: the revolution will be fashion forward
Anne Higonnet on the three women who dressed the French revolution; Boots Riley's radically kinetic "I Love Boosters," and the dialectical materialism…
May 31
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Courtney Cook
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089: A Unifying Theorem for Everyday Entropy
J.G. Farrell's "The Troubles," rotting chamfered porch posts, the need for skilled craftsmen, and how to build resilience against life-weather
May 17
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Courtney Cook
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88: Now is the Season of Mucking Around in the Dirt
Jim Crace's "Harvest, Gary Stevenson's podcast, my garden, and the case for a materialist alliance against the oligarchy.
Apr 26
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Courtney Cook
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The Dartmouth D-Plan Was Perfect for Having a Baby
A war, a motel on the Dixie Highway, and the beginning of a Dartmouth love story.
Apr 15
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Courtney Cook
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About the Author
Courtney Cook is a writer and communications leader based in Wilder, Vermont.
Apr 12
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Courtney Cook
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087: This is How I Want to Live
Marlowe Granados, style as power and personhood, and yet another way of thinking about how to fight the darkness and win
Jan 19
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Courtney Cook
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86: Letting the Strange, Cross-Gartered Parts of Ourselves Come to the Surface
Twelfth Night is for fighting the darkness with love and mayhem
Jan 5
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Courtney Cook
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85: More Thoughts on What it Means to be Brave
Cillian Murphy's new film, "Steve;" how bravery ≠ success; how value ≠ the obvious metrics; Claire Keegan's "Small Things Like These" + Page Count
Oct 19, 2025
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Courtney Cook
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84: How to Draw a Line That is Not Stupid
Ani DiFranco, Gary Stevenson, Greta Thunberg, Zack Polanski, but not Barack Obama + inspiring videos + this week's page count + read to the end for…
Oct 12, 2025
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Courtney Cook
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83: Maybe try Learning from Books About Walking
Cheryl Strayed, Rachel Joyce, Rory Stewart, Geoffrey Chaucer, John Bunyan, and what happens when you walk far enough to learn it
Sep 28, 2025
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Courtney Cook
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82: Who Owns Our Days?
Paolo Sorrentino's "La Grazia," the 2025 Booker Longlist, that same Milosz poem that I come back to over and over + Colum McCann's new novel and a LRB…
Sep 22, 2025
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Courtney Cook
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81. When Did the Sinking Start?
Vincent Delecroix's "Small Boat" has the courage to ask hard questions + this week's Page Count (a comfort read and another one from the Longlist)
Sep 7, 2025
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Courtney Cook
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Survival by Book
Searching, sharply funny writing on the culture we swim around in and the stories we tell ourselves to survive.
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