Attempts

A reality-based blog by Stephen Saperstein Frug

"There is naught that you can do, other than to resist, with hope or without it. But you do not stand alone."

Sunday, July 09, 2023

I'm Now Writing Elsewhere, Come Read Me There

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To put this all in one post for the top of this page: I've moved. If you want to read my essays and link round-ups—the sort of thing I u...
Friday, March 10, 2023

Introducing Retcon: A Mosaic Story in Three Movements

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This is cross-posted from Attempts's new home on substack . If you are reading this, you should go subscribe to the substack!  New updat...
Thursday, February 02, 2023

Re-Launching Attempts on Substack

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I have decided to re-launch Attempts on Substac k. You can read (and subscribe for free) here: https://stephenfrug.substack.com/ The inaugur...
Thursday, November 24, 2022

The Same Thanksgiving Post I Have Put Up Every Year Since 1621

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Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing.... Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with pr...
Wednesday, September 29, 2021

The Aeneid, Book 1, Line 203

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…forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.  — Virgil (19 BCE)   An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of ...
Wednesday, July 28, 2021

Snark and Boojum Press

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“‘You may seek it with thimbles—and seek it with care;       You may hunt it with forks and hope; You may threaten its life with a railway-...
Wednesday, May 19, 2021

Nine Years Ago Today

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This happened nine years ago today; adjusting for time zones, this post should go up at the moment (6pm Spanish time, 12pm Eastern US). It...
Sunday, April 25, 2021

On the Afterlife of Photographic Subjects: A Strange Sub-Sub Genre on the Border of History and Journalism

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I just read the remarkable piece of journalism about the woman who was the subject of this famous photograph: It was written by Patricia McK...
Wednesday, January 20, 2021

Kim Stanley Robinson's THE MINISTRY FOR THE FUTURE: A Review

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 ...by me, but not here; it's at The Ancillary Review of Books , and you can read it here: https://ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2021/01/20...

Poem of the Day: When people say, “we have made it through worse before”

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When people say, “we have made it through worse before” all I hear is the wind slapping against the gravestones of th...

America! America outraged! America broken! America martyred! But America liberated!

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 A sneak preview of Biden's inaugural address in just over an hour:
Thursday, January 14, 2021

Piranesi: a Spoiler-Free Review

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I just finished reading Susana Clarke's second novel, Piranesi (2020) and it is just as wonderful as her first novel, Jonathan Strange ...
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