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Finding the Throughline ep. 21: Writer, Substacker, and "Journeyman" Marlon Weems
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Finding the Throughline ep. 21: Writer, Substacker, and "Journeyman" Marlon Weems

On writing about 'conversation starting' topics like race: "I grew up in the 60s in the South, what's some anonymous guy on the internet going to say that will hurt me?"

Marlon Weems writes "The Journeyman" -- one of my favorite Substack newsletters, where he talks about American culture, growing up Black in the South, and anti-Black racism. In my interview of him on this week’s Finding the Throughline, we talked about how he has 50-60 drafts of articles going at any given time, how he writes mostly on his phone and mos…

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Finding the Throughline
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Conversations about the creative process, involving mildly invasive questions and unvarnished (and invigorating!) answers.