I am going to jump back at some point soon to do a deeper dive on this other press based in the South End, but I did want to put it down here first. I'm seeing this blog as a kind of placeholder and space to draft things, though I don't want to be tedious. I want to hold myself accountable. I hear Substack can be useful for such writing, but I also hear they platform some deeply problematic and offensive material. I also had Ghost recommended to me. I worry about making people sign up for my writing, even at no cost. We'll see if I migrate over at some point. Happy to hear from folks about these options. As for the placeholder... One of the first presses that piqued my interest, after thinking about the South End Press coming out of my own neighborhood - most obviously, given that they used the neighborhood's name right in their own - was the New England Free Press . They were in a slightly earlier period, publishing pamphlets and more from 1967-1981, jumping around the...