Stray Currents is a personal essay newsletter from a Milwaukee-based grad student blending wry walking and everyday observations with satirical features on work and culture. Readers get witty, first-person commentary and playful takes on corporate life, consumer brands, and AI anxieties.
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Personal essays on relationships, thinking, creativity and agency, written from a family life on a Baltic island. Readers get reflective, exploratory writing that works through questions such as why music moves us and how to get unstuck creatively.
Personal essays that use art, philosophy, literature and pop culture to examine experiences that are hard to put into words, such as talent, desire and love. Readers get reflective, richly referenced writing with a distinct authorial voice.
Christina Larocco writes personal and historical essays that braid family stories with ideas from history, such as the myth of individual genius and the cultural origins of ideas. Readers get reflective, well-researched essays that connect everyday life to larger questions about meaning, creativity and mortality.
Personal essays on rural life in southern New Hampshire, drawing on the seasons, woods, ponds and memory. Each issue is a reflective piece on topics like a 50th high school reunion, autumn at the pond and an abandoned canoe.
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