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Why Pickles, and also, Why Blog at All?
I can hear you asking. I can hear the incredulity whirring behind your crinkled eyebrows. Why, exactly, would someone restart a blog? A blog? A…
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The Return
Well. Well. Well. Look who’s decided to post again. It has been several… years? Eight, in fact? Good lord. This site has been gathering internet…
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Book Rec: Harbors by Donald Quist
This is the first installment in a series of posts where I recommend books that are fantastically written. Coming the day after yet another officer…
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Reading for Unheard LA on KPCC
A couple months ago I wrote an essay for an “Unheard LA” event put on by KPCC, my local NPR affiliate. They broadcast my reading…
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The Clipper Ship Era: An Epitome of Famous American and British Clipper Ships, Their Owners, Builders, Commanders, and Crews, 1843-1869
Hey folks, this is another review in my series on the Tea Clipper Races. This one gets a bit into the weeds (both the review…
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Films For Creative Types
Artists often work alone. While isolation naturally draws introverted personalities into the richness of their inner life, it can also leave creatives feeling confused about…
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Obligatory New Year’s Post: 2016 Edition
Hello again, and welcome to what’s become a tradition here at the Ye Olde Blogpostery, a look back at the recently passed year, and a glance…
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Movie Review: In the Heart of the Sea [Part 2]
I’m a fan of nautical stories (Read: The Famous Tea Clipper Races), particularly those based in the 1800s, I also am a big fan of…
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Book Review: In the Heart of the Sea [Part 1]
This review comes some fifteen years after the book was originally published. I picked it up recently both because of my interest in the nautical…
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Learn to Sail LA’s Official Tall Ships (For Free!)
My love of tall ships goes back a ways, but given my recent research dive into the great tea races, it’s taken on an outsized…
About Joshua Rigsby
Joshua Rigsby runs an independent bookstore in a small southern town. His writing has been featured on Thrillist, Atlas Obscura, Southern California Public Radio, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and The Atlantic.
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