Introducing the Saturday Brunch

A figurative flat white or fizzy to start your weekend

Photo by prosha amiri on Unsplash

Hello friendly readers!

Thanks so much for your support these first few weeks of The Matterhorn. I’m making a small tweak to the setup and wanted to let you know.

Originally, my extra posts, typically for paid subscribers, were set to come to your inbox on Thursdays. Well, it’s very simple really: I’ve had a bit of feedback that some of you like a weekend read. So Tuesday Text Topics remain on Tuesday (as always, free for all — please share widely!) and Thursday Extras become the Saturday Brunch read. Saturdays are for articles on reading, writing, internationalism, culture, interviews…and more. They are mostly for paid subscribers. You can switch to paid at any time.

Also, for those who care about things like this, I’ll be relabelling the ‘EXTRA’ posts with baby roman numerals, like one would use to reference the scene of a dramatic text (i.e. II, iii, 34). Who doesn’t like a baby roman numeral? (It’s rhetorical.)

I have been engaging some great side texts / emails about some of the ideas here. Please don’t be shy and share your ideas directly in the comments! I’ll be keeping the comments on Tuesdays open to all for a little while. I’m also collaborating with a few people to see how this platform can grow into a more dynamic community, including discussion forums, guest posts, and microcasts. Stay tuned.

I hope you’re gaining some of these things already:

• Long form writing as an antidote to the quick pace of social media and listicles (short stuff has a purpose, too, and hey, this is a list!)

• Ways of making texts come alive, through dialogue or multi-media

• Texts to discover yourself (or re-discover)

• A community of people who want to engage with ideas in an interdisciplinary way

• Ideas about reading and writing

There will be other changes as we grow, but essentially making a place where we can slow down to think about ideas through writing, reading, and the arts is what this will be about.

Get in touch directly anytime by simply replying to this email.

Thank you and have a wonderful day!

                    Best, Kate