the Cat on Cake paintings of Sandra Chi, Paige Lipari Island, a food writing one-off class, + piu!

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Morning. Paige here. The person behind this thingy. I am starting a weird little world. It’s more of an extension of the one that already has been going strong since day one, but this exists online and requires a $5 monthly subscription. Paige Lipari Island’s first newsletter will be delivered on July 23rd.

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Sign up here to receive mostly Sicilian recipes (I cannot help myself, the ancestors no shut uppa their mouth) and expect all your Archestratus favs to be released! Musings, exclusive ephemera, one-panel comics, short films, recorded interviews, music, “art,” — it’s gonna be a place to go hang.

A fortress is made of more than one stone

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I vow to show up with the kind of heart, humor, creativity, empathy, steadiness, and kindness I hunger for in others. I hope it makes your life easier. I hope it fills you with some laughter and joy. I hope it serves. I want to give you your moneys worth. I know it is hard-earned.

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While Archestratus simply can’t exist as a physical space forever, this feels continuous and viable and alive for me and my path wherever it may lead. If you have enjoyed the ride so far and wanna come along, I could not be more moved. For the people who have already signed up, I cried actual tears. Please know: I see you! I saw you! Thank you.

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Moving right along: A summer food writing workshop with our gifted writer and professor Devra Ferst. Work on one idea all night with the best of them. If you have ever been interested in taking the Food Writing Class, this is a great opportunity to get a preview.

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Our answer to so many things is COMMUNITY.

What should we fry up for dinner? Community! List 7 things you wanna accomplish before 30: Community! Where is your Venus placement? Community!

If you also have this venus placement, please drop by one or all of our many clubs: our book club, our cooking club, our philosophy club, or our weirdo club.

Siamese on Party Cake

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And finally: A newsletter exclusive! The incredible paintings of Sandra Chi. Part of her ‘Cat on Cake’ series, these are one of a kind and there are only six available. Support a Greenpoint working artist and fill your home with joy. Can you feel Sandra’s vibes coming through? She is is a wonderful character.

Lady on Paradise Cake

One of the BEST WAYS to support Archestratus is through our Bookshop.org shop. It is one of the last great remunerative book bastions! Perhaps you desire the new Ali Smith ?

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MY SYMPTOMS BY JOHN YAU: Chinese-American writer John Yau's short fiction collection is set in bleak neighborhoods of casual misunderstanding, habitual deception and oblique, transient encounters among strangers. At the heart of Yau’s artistic inquiry is that precarious and unstable thing “identity”―and the ways that isolation and alienation threaten identity altogether. The Review of Contemporary Fiction said, “These are stories that recount the symptoms of many, if not most of us.”

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