Daniel Polansky

Bits of brilliance, but I’d regard it as a misstep from an enormously talented writer: danielpolansky1.substack.com/p/books-i-read…

Brisk and funny... you get the sense that the author is enjoying himself: danielpolansky1.substack.com/p/books-i-read…

Her books are slick and small and (seemingly) a little too clever to reach mass market appeal: danielpolansky1.substack.com/p/books-i-read…

At this very instant, the Almighty writes your future into his book of life. There is still time, through prayer and desperate apology, to earn forgiveness for your manifold sins of the past year. Or, you know, not. Books I’ve read recently: danielpolansky1.substack.com/p/books-i-read…

Apart from his issues with pyromania, J. is a nice enough person danielpolansky1.substack.com/p/why-my-pyrom…

That time a man came close to burning down my house danielpolansky1.substack.com/p/why-my-pyrom…

I found offering candy bars to unhoused strangers intimidating, but interacting with J. was easy. danielpolansky1.substack.com/p/volunteering…

It's really astonishing how much excellent fiction came out of the relatively small population of Lusitanian Africa. danielpolansky1.substack.com/p/books-i-read…

Did you really have a vacation if you didn't sit on a beach and read 21 books? Or bake apple pie and various breads for your family? Or swim in the Atlantic? Or walk along a dusty road, remembering your past selves and what is to come? danielpolansky1.substack.com/p/books-i-read…

The issue is not whether the people living in your neighborhood encampment are worthy of assistance, but whether they should be living in encampments at all. We have to keep making efforts, for our own sake nearly as much as for the sake of the unhoused. danielpolansky1.substack.com/p/volunteering…

Four years ago I re-read David Eddings. The subsequent article I wrote was titled 'first loves and bad fantasy' so I guess you know where I landed. But maybe you didn't know that Eddings was also a bad man as well as a bad writer... danielpolansky1.substack.com/p/first-loves-…

I met J. in 2019, the first time I did homeless outreach. She was living on an island in the L.A. River, hidden by a high wall of arundo reeds. I found offering candy bars to unhoused strangers intimidating, but interacting with J. was easy... danielpolansky1.substack.com/p/volunteering…

Some part of me is always like 'I'll see your materialist isolation and raise you the complexities of a multi-ethnic society and the ludicrous ubiquity of gun ownership' substack.com/home/post/p-17…

Books I read recently, among them this. Wainaina is a real talent, putting his skills towards understanding the complexity of his personal and national existence. An African writer, and not a Westerner's idea of an African writer. danielpolansky1.substack.com/p/books-i-read…

If you haven’t read anything by @DanielPolansky, you’re doing it wrong

You maybe haven't heard of him, despite the Borges rave. Allow me. danielpolansky1.substack.com/p/the-forgotte…

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@antiqueboy New to me. Thanks though.

Hey @DanielPolansky did you read the Seafort Saga by David Feintuch? I felt a lot of fun echoes in Tomorrow’ Children. Love Low Town too!

@DanielPolansky, just finished this. Loved it! World beautifully built, a sharp wit that made me chuckle, and absolutely loved the fresh, quick, bounding along of the narrative. Thank you.

@icameron930 Glad you enjoyed it!