Set beauty apart from the world, and its beauty that suffers

Newsletter Published on June 2, 2026

Join Stephen Jenkinson and Kimberly Ann Johnson this Sunday for an online event to debut Stephen Jenkinson’s new book:

Trembling, Still: The Awful Clarity of a Mind in Eclipse

Free Online Book Event

12 Noon ET, June 7th, 2026

“Set beauty apart from the world, and its beauty that suffers, and maybe the world doesn’t know. A thousand blandishments, things never really working out, every tired recrimination and one-size-fits-all indelicacy levied for the sake of the delicate: I pile that upon myself. Preservation: a tax on beauty.”

From Trembling, Still.

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