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Quarterly Co.™ is a subscription service that enables people to receive physical items in the mail from influential contributors of their choice. Let’s get started!
Maud Newton Writer
What can I expect to receive from Maud?
As a child I lived in novels as much as I did in the world, stumbling around hunched and dreamy, tearing through my alloted seven library books and then begging my mother to take me to check out more. Nowadays the challenge isn’t getting my hands on books, it’s finding stories that excite me, as a reader, writer, and critic.
My passion for unusual, well-told stories sends me foraging not just through bookstores—though I do spend a ridiculous amount of time circling the staff recommendations tables at McNally Jackson—but all kinds of media: TV, movies, magazines, blogs, apps, whatever. I still love books best of all, but it took me a while to know that for sure after devouring The Wire.
My Quarterly objects will be books and other great stories that I hope will make you cancel plans or miss your stop or ignore the doorbell. Sometimes they’ll be juicy and suspenseful; other times they’ll be weirder, less about sinking into a story than thinking about the way we tell them. Occasionally they’ll be both, so you can experience them, and ponder them, and then experience them again.
Most recent package
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- #NWT03
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"I’m fascinated by the alchemical potential of places—by the way, as my friend Jessa Crispin puts it, cities rub up against their humans. Many of the writers, artists, and musicians I love most filter feeling through landscapes."
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- #NWT02
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"Herman Melville was a sailor, Toni Morrison a textbook editor, William Faulkner a postmaster. As a writer with an unexciting day job, I revel in these stories. I carry them around like stones."
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- #NWT01
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"In the year and a half after his mother’s death, the French critic Roland Barthes jotted down notes on a series of index cards. The result was this candid, self- berating, and very powerful book."
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