Creator John Sundman (featured beforehand on Boing Boing right here and right here) has a brand new Substack e-newsletter, and I cherished this essay he wrote about an unimaginable expertise he had 50 years in the past when he was a Peace Corps Volunteer “residing in a bit of mud hut within the village of Fanaye Dieri, Senegal, on the sting of the Sahara desert.” John says it is “the story of a brief journey to probably the most distant place I’ve ever been, and the astounding factor I discovered there.” I am not going to provide something away. Simply learn it.

John additionally introduced that he’ll republish his 4 present novel(la)s over the following eight months, every with a brand new foreword by a outstanding literary/cultural observer, together with Ken MacLeod, Cory Doctorow, John Biggs, and David Weinberger. Additionally, John goes to publish a prequel to Acts of the Apostles and Biodigital referred to as Mountain of Devils and is providing print editions of all 5 books autographed by him to founding members of his e-newsletter.