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A nation that never has to pay
1+ week, 2+ hour ago (188+ words) Jeb Lund on war with Iran and war with Iran and war with Iran and Florida I'm excited to have the great Jeb Lund back writing for Hell World. It's a striking and elegiac and wending piece about memory and…...
The little actions of little men
1+ week, 1+ day ago (184+ words) Rax King on reading They Thought They Were Free in the age of ICE A real powerful one today from Rax King on reading Milton Mayer's 1955 book They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-1945 in the age of ICE. "Still,…...
How was your parking?
1+ week, 1+ day ago (637+ words) This will go out as part of the next newsletter hopefully later today. I got an email the other day from a company I now know is called parkwhiz BY FLASH. The folks down at parkwhiz BY FLASH were writing…...
The woman who sat
2+ week, 3+ day ago (228+ words) Zack Budryk returns to write about Amy Madigan, One Battle After Another and the politics, silent and otherwise, of last night's Oscars ceremony. You may also enjoy this piece from 2024 by Corey Atad on a similar subject concerning Jonathan Glazer's…...
Some people will die
3+ week, 6+ day ago (472+ words) Sentences that no one wrote One day it will not be cold out. Today is not that day." Do you ever think that we were delivered the embodiment of the American id " all of our hubris and ignorance and violence…...
Sentences that no one wrote
4+ week, 1+ day ago (176+ words) Today Keith Plocek, who teaches journalism at the University of Southern California, writes about Kurt Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions, solipsism, and the permission structure "AI" gives us to doubt and devalue one another's humanity. Read this one by me about…...
One of the beautiful things music can do
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (1642+ words) Teaching music inside San Quentin Every California correctional institute exists under the long shadow of Alcatraz. And thanks to Johnny Cash, Folsom State Prison is part of the global vocabulary too. Then there's the relatively-recently-renamed San Quentin Rehabilitation Center, about…...
It is mortifying to be seen
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (1071+ words) An excerpt from The Third Beat by Lauren Lav'n Oh man I am stoked about this piece I have to share today. It's an essay from Lauren Lav'n's forthcoming book The Third Beat about beauty and desire and love and…...
The best of Hell World 2025
3+ mon, 6+ day ago (1518+ words) I heard you like to read buddy so have I got a treat for you: writing. The perfect exchange in such a scenario. So here they are. The best pieces written by the Hell World contributors in 2025. Thank you as…...