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Michael Rance

Hi there! I’m a researcher, organizer, and writer with a newsletter about history, literature, modern life, and the left. A brief portfolio of some of my writing is below.

If you would like to collaborate, learn more, or even just chat, feel free to reach out 🙂 michael.j.rance@gmail.com

Personal Essays

‘You can live the wrong life‘
On depression & life-saving music (Track on Tracks)
On fixing one’s life
On art, despair, Hemingway, Chicago
On heartbreak

on Books

On ‘Independent People’, by Halldór Laxness
On the Mayan holy book, ‘Popul Vuh’
On The Grapes of Wrath
On ‘Sunset Blues’ by Andrew Ross
On the Letters of Vincent Van Gogh

on Politics

On the rise of Fascism in the U.S.
On writing about the genocide
On Refaat Alareer
On propaganda
On family war stories
On violence and darkness
On the war in Iran

on Culture

On Guitar Hero & Weezer (Track on Tracks)
On Joni Mitchell
On relics of political struggle (Voices of Lefferts, Issue 9, Fall 2022)

Interviews/Misc.

Issue 113: The Reading Life of… Michael Rance (a reading life – Petya Grady)

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