Daniel Polansky @DanielPolansky

Writer/ex-baker. danielpolansky1.substack.com Los Angeles Joined June 2010

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Daniel Polansky @DanielPolansky

8 months ago

Bits of brilliance, but I’d regard it as a misstep from an enormously talented writer: danielpolansky1.substack.com/p/books-i-read…

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Daniel Polansky @DanielPolansky

9 months ago

Brisk and funny... you get the sense that the author is enjoying himself: danielpolansky1.substack.com/p/books-i-read…

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Daniel Polansky @DanielPolansky

9 months ago

Her books are slick and small and (seemingly) a little too clever to reach mass market appeal: danielpolansky1.substack.com/p/books-i-read…

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Daniel Polansky @DanielPolansky

9 months ago

At this very instant, the Almighty writes your future into his book of life. There is still time, through prayer and desperate apology, to earn forgiveness for your manifold sins of the past year. Or, you know, not. Books I’ve read recently: danielpolansky1.substack.com/p/books-i-read…

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Daniel Polansky @DanielPolansky

9 months ago

Apart from his issues with pyromania, J. is a nice enough person danielpolansky1.substack.com/p/why-my-pyrom…

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Daniel Polansky @DanielPolansky

9 months ago

That time a man came close to burning down my house danielpolansky1.substack.com/p/why-my-pyrom…

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Daniel Polansky @DanielPolansky

9 months ago

I found offering candy bars to unhoused strangers intimidating, but interacting with J. was easy. danielpolansky1.substack.com/p/volunteering…

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Daniel Polansky @DanielPolansky

9 months ago

It's really astonishing how much excellent fiction came out of the relatively small population of Lusitanian Africa. danielpolansky1.substack.com/p/books-i-read…

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Daniel Polansky @DanielPolansky

9 months ago

Did you really have a vacation if you didn't sit on a beach and read 21 books? Or bake apple pie and various breads for your family? Or swim in the Atlantic? Or walk along a dusty road, remembering your past selves and what is to come? danielpolansky1.substack.com/p/books-i-read…

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Daniel Polansky @DanielPolansky

9 months ago

The issue is not whether the people living in your neighborhood encampment are worthy of assistance, but whether they should be living in encampments at all. We have to keep making efforts, for our own sake nearly as much as for the sake of the unhoused. danielpolansky1.substack.com/p/volunteering…

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Daniel Polansky @DanielPolansky

9 months ago

Four years ago I re-read David Eddings. The subsequent article I wrote was titled 'first loves and bad fantasy' so I guess you know where I landed. But maybe you didn't know that Eddings was also a bad man as well as a bad writer... danielpolansky1.substack.com/p/first-loves-…

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Daniel Polansky @DanielPolansky

9 months ago

I met J. in 2019, the first time I did homeless outreach. She was living on an island in the L.A. River, hidden by a high wall of arundo reeds. I found offering candy bars to unhoused strangers intimidating, but interacting with J. was easy... danielpolansky1.substack.com/p/volunteering…

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Daniel Polansky @DanielPolansky

9 months ago

Some part of me is always like 'I'll see your materialist isolation and raise you the complexities of a multi-ethnic society and the ludicrous ubiquity of gun ownership' substack.com/home/post/p-17…

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Daniel Polansky @DanielPolansky

9 months ago

Books I read recently, among them this. Wainaina is a real talent, putting his skills towards understanding the complexity of his personal and national existence. An African writer, and not a Westerner's idea of an African writer. danielpolansky1.substack.com/p/books-i-read…

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Drew McCaffrey @dcafwriting

9 months ago

If you haven’t read anything by @DanielPolansky, you’re doing it wrong

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Daniel Polansky @DanielPolansky

9 months ago

You maybe haven't heard of him, despite the Borges rave. Allow me. danielpolansky1.substack.com/p/the-forgotte…

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RBmediaTopAuthors @RBmediaAuthors

12 months ago

Buy now and save 50% on the "Tomorrow, the Killing" audiobook by @DanielPolansky, and @DanielPolansky. Offer expires 07/18. audiobooks.com/promotions/pro…

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Daniel Polansky @DanielPolansky

a year ago

@antiqueboy New to me. Thanks though.

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Ian Cameron @icameron930

2 years ago

@DanielPolansky, just finished this. Loved it! World beautifully built, a sharp wit that made me chuckle, and absolutely loved the fresh, quick, bounding along of the narrative. Thank you.