A book can make you feel more alive. It can make you feel less alone. It can help you feel connected to people unlike you. It can help you see others.
When so much in the world seems to undermine our sense of common humanity, a book can reconnect you to your own humanity and others’.
I wrote MAN IN THE MIRROR hoping you might find yourself in other people’s struggles to belong, to love, to matter, to find home, to make the world better. If you are like others who have already read it, I think you’ll finish it feeling less alone, more alive, and more human. And more hopeful about what brings us closer together.
I feel proud of what I’ve made. Now I need readers to pick up where this writer has left off. I’d love you to be among the first.
If you’ve been meaning to order it, please make today the day. It would make a big difference and be a light at tunnel’s end.
Have you already ordered, or just did? Drop a comment telling me you have, so I can thank you and so you can find others to read along with. I’m so grateful to you.
You’re one of the clearest, most resonate, insightful, and hopeful voices of this moment. Your essays, along with Rebecca Solnit’s, are life rafts in a sea of despair and disinformation. I ordered your book the moment the preorder was available and can’t wait to read it. 🙏
I pre-orderded a couple of weeks ago. After seeing you read your column yesterday, I am really looking forward to reading Man in the Mirror. What I found additionally instructive yesterday, and what resonated with me was your commitment to the sound, the rhythm of your writing. Never heard anyone but a poet talk of that - but I edit everything for sound and I am not a writer. And your thoughts on RHYME - brilliant. What a way to think through communication from multiple sides, angles, and viewpoints. [One troubling - less important!- item: I couldn't find the link to send out yesterday's substack reading. I am not especially skilled at anything internet-related but could you find someone as unfamiliar as I am and test things out so that "the willing but un-tech-savvy" can know what to do. (Don't spend too much time on this, your thinking, writing and interviewing is what's really valuable to me! - And eventually, I'll find someone who can show me how to do it.)
Am constantly inspired by your writing and interviews - I go first to your substack when I'm having a tough day in this tough world we're in. TY!