Bonus alert! Before reading the short story “Little Things” for this episode, I read from an essay I wrote about the concept of home. This was for Kartika Review, back in the spring of 2010, which is all about my first house:

That is the Alpha Tau chapter of Phi Kappa Tau, which still exists today at 106 The Knoll, Ithaca, New York, and indeed it was my first house, as my formative years were spent in an apartment complex. And the reason why I read the essay first is because this short story is all about my fraternity experience. Animal House it was not — not even close!

Two milestones of note, one of which Substack celebrated in a very Substack way:

And the other:

Thank you, dear readers and listeners! I’m actually kind of shocked that there have been a thousand downloads (1002, to be exact, as of this moment). My hope was we’d get there by the end of the series, so these are some very sweet metrics.

And on the subject of podcasts, if you haven’t listened to Kevin Stroud’s The History of English Podcast, you are in for a treat. I have listened to all 186 (and some bonus episodes, too) and eagerly await his next one.

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