REASONS FOR LIVING with Esmé Weijun Wang is a newsletter with 10,000+ subscribers about the reasons that we have for living, written by award-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of The Collected Schizophrenias, Esmé Weijun Wang (that's me!).
Every week, you'll receive a guest essay by a respected writer, from R.F. Kuang to Jenny Odell, about one of their reasons for living. Accompanying that guest essay will be a poem, a piece of visual art, and a journal prompt that follows the theme of the guest essay.
When you sign up for REASONS FOR LIVING with Esmé Weijun Wang, you'll have two options. On the Free Tier, you will receive that standard REASONS FOR LIVING newsletters every other week. On the Paid Tier, you'll be able to take part in regular Fireside Chats, where we talk about some aspect of art-making while living with limitations and write together with the gift of a few prompts. You'll also receive a paywalled personal essay by me every other week in addition to the newsletters for regular subscribers. Finally, you'll be supporting me as a working writer. The Paid tier is $7/month.
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REASONS FOR LIVING with Esmé Weijun Wang
The Academy Bulletin is a newsletter for ambitious writers, often those living with limitations such as disability, chronic illness, ,and/or caregiving responsibilities.
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A NEWSLETTER FOR AMBITIOUS WRITERS (OFTEN LIVING WITH LIMITATIONS)
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I’m a writer and essayist—the author of the New York Times-bestselling essay collection The Collected Schizophrenias (2019), as well as the novel The Border of Paradise (2016), which was named one of NPR’s Best Books of 2016 and one of Electric Literature’s Top 25 Novels of 2016; I was selected by Granta for their once-a-decade Best of Young American Novelists list of 21 authors under 40. I’ve also made appearances on the Today Show, NPR’s Weekend Edition, KCRW, the New York Times, the CBC, Flavorwire, and the New Yorker Online.
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