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I learned about the apocalypse when I was 11 from Terminator 2: Judgement Day. My viewing of the movie corresponded with a rare occasion in our house…
Leah Sottile

December 2022

Over the past nine weeks, I had the pleasure of guiding a group of writers in a version of my “Writing the Weird and Wonderful” class through Portland’s…
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November 2022

Tell me again why I’m supposed to care that Twitter is now a smoldering pile of embers? Have you been there at all in the last four years? These…
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October 2022

"Maybe the issue with homelessness isn't that I'm seeing trash in my neighborhood. Maybe it's that there are literal human beings sleeping next to that…
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September 2022

One September afternoon in 2020, I was recording the narration for Two Minutes Past Nine inside our backpacking gear closet when Joe knocked on the…
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August 2022

I was one of those Kurt Vonnegut kids. Surely, there were one or two of us at your high school? At 16, during my junior year, we had to complete a…
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July 2022

After a wonderful kickoff for When the Moon Turns to Blood at Powell’s, I hit the road for some events and to commemorate writing a book with a big…
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June 2022

My first book, titled When the Moon Turns to Blood, is out today.
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May 2022

I fell in love with graveyards on the last day of hearings for a new Supreme Court justice. You probably remember the one I mean: a red-nosed man…
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Before I get to this month’s newsletter, I have two updates! I can’t believe this is finally happening: When the Moon Turns to Blood comes out next…
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April 2022

In December 2019, I pulled my car away from the little yellow house with intermittent heat on a wide street in Missoula, Montana. Joe and I had been…
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March 2022

In case you don’t follow me over on Twitter, I announced some big news earlier this week: I wrote a book. The title is When the Moon Turns to Blood, and…
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