what even is this?

This is the newsletter-slash-blog of writer, editor, and critic Devon Maloney. Honestly, there are a million newsletters out there you could be reading instead. I’m really grateful that you’re here! (Wait, you’re not lost, are you? My portfolio site is over there.)

MalonEmail is, above all, fun for me. It started as a Tinyletter way back in 2013, as a way to keep my readers abreast of my writing as a freelance pop culture journalist. But the Newsletter Economy™ has evolved, and so have I. I’m not hocking my wares as frequently as I once was — though you can still read my work on sites like Vulture and WIRED — but I continue to have lots of (too many?) opinions on topics ranging from TV and internet culture to social justice and mental health. Some aren’t fit to pitch, some I’m too lazy to pitch, and some I’d prefer to send directly to you beautiful creatures rather than suffer the indignity of getting paid $200 for the rights to my creative output in perpetuity. The publications regularly publishing at the center of my personal Venn diagram have been dwindling, anyway.

TL;DR: Subscribe to MalonEmail because we like the same stuff, and you enjoy the all-caps pop-culture yelling of a professional at the intersection of Talking Head and Your Friend from College.

Your inbox won’t be flooded by my newsletters, anyway, nor can I promise they’ll ever arrive on a schedule — once, a good 16 months passed between MalonEmails, though I think that was a record for me. If it ever gets to be too much, know that, as a people-pleaser, I delight in feedback. (Caveat: I also have lots of feelings, so be nice.) And of course, the unsubscribe link is always there as a last resort.

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