The Seaboard Review: January 27, 2025
Date Volume 2, Issue 4
Greetings, TSR Subscriber!
You may have noticed a slight change to this week’s email: the term “newsletter” has been dropped, and it’s now simply The Seaboard Review, the same as our Substack site, and social media accounts. Unity of brand, and less confusion for our subscribers.
“Newsletter” connotes a periodic update of news within a business or organization, which is not really what I intended to do with the start of a weekly email from TSR.
The intention was less inbox clutter for you, as you would have received 4 or 5 emails during the week, as I posted new articles. Now, with the weekly (Monday) email, it will reflect what is new at the site, so you can choose to visit any (or all) links. There will still be “news” items as they come along, things that don’t warrant a full article at the site, so consider these as “inside information” for your eyes only. :)
Finances
A quick word about supporting TSR. We have a base of paid subscribers, as well as sponsors of this weekly email, all of which helps us to defray what few expenses we have and give out well-deserved honorariums to our team of volunteer reviewers and contributors. Substack gets 10% of every paid subscription. Recently, some have questioned the financing of the Substack owners in light of some controversial issues, which you can Google for yourself. Of course, they have expenses too, primarily infrastructure and employees. I don’t think they are getting rich off that 10% by any means. Nevertheless, some may be hesitant to support TSR because of this, so I want to let you know that you have options.
Ko-fi: you can choose from one-time donations to a $5/month membership
Patreon: memberships from $3/month on up.
Both are safe and effective ways to get your monetary support to us.
Now on to the good stuff!
Featured Post
The Mother: A Graphic Memoir by Rachel Deutsch
Allow me to come out from under a rock and introduce myself: first time graphic book reader. I don’t count The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers because those were around the house when I was a child, they grossed me out and terrified me, and might be the reason I have thus far stayed away from graphic books. I don’t really “do” memoir either*. (I know, I k…
More New Articles
In Conversation: Elana Wolff with James Deahl
James Deahl was born and raised in Pittsburgh, and in the highlands of West Virginia. He immigrated to Canada in 1970 and has lived most of his adult life in cities in Southern Ontario—Toronto, London, Hamilton, and now Sarnia. Deahl has worked as a publisher, editor, lecturer, critic, and screen and audiotape writer; for the past eighteen years he has …
Life is a Carnival: Midway by Brent Mason
Editor's Note: This review is respectfully dedicated to the memory of The Band, whose last remaining member, Garth Hudson, passed away earlier this week.
Feeling Stuck? Dan Heath's "Reset" Offers Help
Most of us, I imagine, have experienced situations in our work or personal lives where we’ve felt “stuck”—we know things aren’t going the way we’d like, but we don’t know what we can do to make the situation better. Getting unstuck, particularly in an institutional setting where there is a set way of doing things, can be difficult. But in
That's all for this issue, I hope you enjoyed it! Please leave a comment below if you wish.
James M. Fisher, Editor-in-Chief