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Happiness is Bunk
Sometimes while sipping a tonic of cynicism I wonder if our notion of happiness is just a marketing campaign dreamt up to sell laundry detergent and tickets to a certain […] Continue Reading →
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How to Handle a Bad Review: Part 3 (When They’re Right)
People will tell you that your writing sucks. Sometimes those people will be right. Two previous posts have talked about what to do when the reviewer is clearly suffering from […] Continue Reading →
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Why Everyone Still Loves Hitler
For someone we claim dislike so much we seem to reference him all the time. In political discussions especially. There is no better way to score cheap points with your base […] Continue Reading →
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How to Handle a Bad Review: Pt. 2 (When You Don’t Know Who’s Right)
Last week I wrote about how to respond when someone gives your writing a bad review for reasons that have nothing to do with the quality of your work. Basically, […] Continue Reading →
Hi, I’m Joshua Rigsby
I’m a writer and a bookstore owner. I enjoy tautologies.
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Y Pickles, Tho?
A fair question. I write about writing and books and life and 19th century tea clippers. None of that is particularly related to briny vegetables. I just like the idea that a pickled cucumber is a pickle. I enjoy the backhanded humor of it. I like to fuck with people. I’m not sure what to tell you.
Joshua Rigsby
Joshua Rigsby runs a bookstore in a small town in Georgia. He has written for Thrillist, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Southern California Public Radio, and the Atlantic.
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