both are true love notes

Alex Dobrenko`, writer of Both Are True , writes from a place of honesty and vulnerability, and has some of the most honest takes on being a father that found me when I needed it most. I think his vulnerability is a gift—a place that allows other men, men like me, to lean more and more into the parts of ourselves that make us human—the part that sa... See more

Again, I’m picking on Scott for reasons. The same is true of every other essayist I love. Sam Kriss at his best provides catharsis; at his worst, a sense of jaded superiority. Ted Gioia at his best makes me fall in love with art and music as if for the first time; at his worst, like I’m part of a small culturally-literate elite in a crumbling world... See more