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Mar 8, 2024 | 
freddiedeboer.substack.com | Alicia Kenworthy |Freddie deBoer
It’s Book Week!Here is the winner of the 2023 Book Review Contest! Congratulations again to Alicia Kenworthy, who’s newsletter you can find here. Sorry for the delay but when I realized I was going to do a Book Week I realized I wanted to hold off sharing this until then. Below is Alicia’s review, along with a little collection of related audio clips that she’s gathered for a potential future podcast project.
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Oct 9, 2023 | 
terryfreedman.substack.com | Terry Freedman |Rebecca Holden |Alicia Kenworthy
Greetings! This post is mainly about writing, from different angles. I don’t mean writing in italics, but different aspects of the topic. It includes my account of meeting up with in real life! (Gulp!)This email is a bit long to fit in an email, so it would be better to read it online or in the Substack app. But enough of this persiflage! On with the newsletter. TerryWe writers are never off work. Everywhere we go, everyone we meet, and every conversation we overhear are all grist to the mill.
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Sep 14, 2023 | 
terryfreedman.substack.com | Alicia Kenworthy
Alicia writes beautifully and humorously about the things we probably all take too seriously. In this delightful essay she offers a thought-provoking view of how our expectations and understanding of love might change as we become older and, one hopes, wiser. I spent my 20s crying over Frenchmen on street corners in San Francisco. It started with the Parisian lawyer I dated long-distance.
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Aug 30, 2023 | 
niccisnotes.substack.com | Nicci Kadilak |Alicia Kenworthy
Well, hello, there. I don’t usually introduce my Wednesday essays, but as this essay isn’t mine, I thought I’d open with a note. Today’s Note comes from , a wonderful writer and human who I met last year during a program called Substack Grow. I’ve always loved the way she puts words together, and I jumped at the opportunity to share guest posts this fall. I hope you enjoy this rumination on how finding a relative she didn’t know existed shaped her in unexpected ways.
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Mar 15, 2023 | 
catalectic.substack.com | Alicia Kenworthy
I dated a boy in Silicon Valley once. We met at a networking event put on by our alma mater in a staid corporate conference room in Mountain View — or was it San Jose? — for venture capitalists and young entrepreneurs. The boy aspired to disrupt the trucking industry and had empathetic eyes.
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Mar 3, 2023 | 
catalectic.substack.com | Alicia Kenworthy
Sevgili Oleg,There’s a chapter in The Mosquito Bite Author toward the end, where Cemil answers a call from his good friend Ilhan. Ilhan has been cheating on his wife with a young woman 16 years his junior named Ceren and is anxious about the “movie script’s worth of lies” he’s told to cover the affair. “Is it worth going through all of this deceit just to suck a young girl’s blood?” he asks.
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Feb 24, 2023 | 
catalectic.substack.com | Alicia Kenworthy
Merhaba dear Oleg!Cok iyiyim, teşekkürler. Sen nasılsın ? I was delighted to receive your letter last week. You made reference to the contemptible Oblomov, incapable of doing much apart from rest and thought. Alas, I’ve felt somewhat Oblomov-adjacent this week.
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Feb 15, 2023 | 
catalectic.substack.com | Alicia Kenworthy
Barcelona Wine Bar always had a two-and-a-half to three-hour wait list. We maintained it with paper and No. 2 pencil. When the line got that long I would tell hopeful diners honestly how many names were ahead of them but anything less than that — 90 minutes, 45 — I’d qualify per our manager’s direction as “a drink, a drink and a half.” Washington DC is a town of lawyers but it wasn’t my job to be precise. It was my job to help people feel welcome and settle in by the bar.
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Feb 9, 2023 | 
catalectic.substack.com | Alicia Kenworthy
Note for Website Readers: This post is my first response to in a six-part series/letter exchange. To read his letter to me, hop over to !Sevgili Oleg,One thing our readers should probably know off the bat — and which I’m a little embarrassed to admit here — one of us read this book in its original Turkish and, the other, through English translation. Alas! Not to cast translations in a bad light. I believe we first connected over Jhumpa Lahiri’s essays.
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Jan 30, 2023 | 
catalectic.substack.com | Alicia Kenworthy |George Saunders |Lauren Hough
The first time I bumped into on the isle of Patmos, Greece was by a coffee stand in the hotel where 50+ writers had gathered for a summer retreat and all I could think to talk about was how my roommate lost her luggage and borrowed my underwear. (She’d had to re-wash her original pair in the sink, can you imagine?) I’d arrived in Greece vaguely self-aware my writing fell somewhere in that Ira Glass gap between taste and talent with notions of a manuscript in my back pocket.
