Me
I am a writer and your enemy.
I write for money. If you have money, I will probably write for you. My essays have appeared in publications including The Atlantic, The Baffler, Current Affairs, Damage, Even, First Things, Full Stop, Foreign Policy, The Guardian, Harper’s, The Huffington Post, Jacobin, The New Inquiry, The New York Times, The Outline, Plinth, Politico, Roads and Kingdoms, Salon, Salvage, Slate, The Spectator, Spike Art Magazine, The Telegraph, Verso, Vice, Viewpoint, The Washington Post, and Wired.
You can email me at samrkriss [at] gmail dot com, or by replying to any newsletters in your inbox.
You can ambush me outside my home in London, with weapons, if you like.
This
There are a set of handy best practices for this particular region of the machine: have regular open threads, chitchat with your subscribers, post humanising updates about your life. Form a community. I’m told that the most successful writing on here is friendly, frequent, and fast. Apparently, readers should know exactly what you’re getting at within the first three sentences. I do not plan on doing any of these things.
I would like to see if, in the belly of the dying internet, it’s possible to create something that is not like the internet. I want to see if I can poke at the outlines of whatever is coming next. I wonder if it’s possible to talk about things differently. Not rationally or calmly, away from the cheap point-scoring of online discourse—that would also be boring—but with a better, less sterile kind of derangement. I’m interested in the forms of writing that were here long before the internet, and which will be here long after it’s gone. Not thinkpieces or blogs, but the essay, the manifesto, the satyr, and the screed. Ludibria, pseudepigrapha, quodlibets. Or folktales. Prophecy. Dreams.
You
You can give me money if you want. In doing so you will not ‘be part of a community of people who share your interests.’ You will be alone, looking at a screen. If there’s one particular paywalled piece that you really want to read but you can’t afford the expense, get in touch and I’ll probably give you a month or so free.
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