Danya Kukafka

Jan 11, 2024 | shepherd.com | Angela Lam |Danya Kukafka |Patricia Highsmith |Julie Clark

Notes on an Execution gutted me as a reader. I became the sociopath on death row with only 12 hours to live. I listened to the women in my life talk about me, from my mother who didn’t understand why I brought her dead animals instead of flowers to my wife who trusted me beyond reason to my brother’s family in whom I had finally found a home until that detective snatched it away from me, leaving me with nothing.

Jan 1, 2024 | mattbell.substack.com | Danya Kukafka |Annie Ernaux |Julia Armfield |Ander Monson

Happy new year! Here’s hoping that your 2023 ended well, and that 2024 becomes a better year for you, your loved ones, and the world at large. In my last newsletter (which was not last month, as usual, since I took a Substack break during end-of-semester/holiday crunch), I wrote about some of the crossover lessons I’ve found between my writing practice and my running practice.