The Pickled Cucumber

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.

Things I’ve Written

Pretty Good Books

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Why Pickles, and also, Why Blog at All?

Joshua Rigsby

January 6, 2025

I can hear you asking. I can hear the incredulity whirring behind your crinkled eyebrows. Why, exactly, would someone restart a blog? A blog? A web-log? You say. Seems a […] Continue Reading →
Learn to Get Burned: Overcoming Your Fear of Rejection

Joshua Rigsby

June 20, 2013

If you are serious about this writing thing, you are going to have to show your writing to people. Stop being precious about it. Stop being scared of rejection. Every […] Continue Reading →
Why The Book is Better Than The Movie

Joshua Rigsby

June 17, 2013

Inevitably, every time a new film adaptation comes out, people get up in arms about how it’s not like the original book. The characters are vapid, the world is two-dimensional, […] Continue Reading →
Goaltending: The Path to A Happy Writer Life

Joshua Rigsby

May 18, 2013

If you want to get the most out of your writing life you need to know where you’re going and how to get there. Otherwise you will continue wandering in […] Continue Reading →
How Do You Know If You’re a Writer?

Joshua Rigsby

May 8, 2013

Ah, the question that has plagued humankind since cuneiform was first smudged into clay. It manifests itself into all forms of existential hysteria. Am I really a writer? Does this […] Continue Reading →