What is scurf?
Writing long and short. There are not just essays they are deflections, fragments, and entanglements where I try to thread a needle, one topic at a time. These are mostly just for me, as I try to figure things out. But through these acutely personal musings, I am also finding meaning and creating space for you readers: friends, acquaintances and strangers. These posts are me in parenthesis, digressions where I try to piece myself together for me, before you. Sometimes they are longer than those long nights, and others, shorter than a sigh. I do feel shy and uncomfortable at the thought of sending some of these out, and maybe will put those weirder ones behind a paywall soon too. Till then these essays remain free and I hope you enjoy sharing and reading them as much as I enjoy writing them. It would be lovely if you’d share this newsletter with your friends, cousins, acquaintances, even parents.
Scurf has roughly 350 subscribers as of now, increasing slowly but steadily, every day. Anyone who reads for leisure will find something of their liking in my list of scurf essays. I am now trying to get a bit more regular here (and not jinx it by typing these words), so the garden of essays will only expand. Read, share, gift to reading friends!
My essays have been published on The Atlantic, 3AM Magazine, LA Review of Books, Aeon, Pen Transmissions, Lit Hub, Public Books, Frieze, Electric Literature, Popula, Art Review, etc. You can see my complete list of publications here.
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