Dear Living Dark reader,

I write today to ask for your creative help.

When I launched this newsletter back in September 2022, I knew it might end up becoming a repository for material that I would one day want to transform into a book. Nineteen month later, that day has arrived. Essays have accumulated. Connections have suggested themselves. A preliminary structure to organize at least twenty-one posts (and maybe more, plus additional material) into three sections has emerged. There’s a good energ...