Lee
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On writing The Politics of Lonely: Why Is Friendship So Hard?
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I have some pretty big Sheer-Spite-adjacent news: I (Lee, who runs Sheer Spite) have a book coming out, and I’m not publishing it myself??? The book is called The…
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new book: Trying Unfathomably Hard to Live: Notes on the First Year of a Stroke, by Alyssa Favreau
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In the quiet days over the turning of the year, a new book was born! While biking to work one summer morning, Alyssa Favreau gets in an accident, has…
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running an in-person zine distro
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Sheer Spite isn’t my first time running a zine-selling operation: from about 2012 to 2016, I ran a couple of zine racks in person in Ottawa, where I was…
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on doing a giant mess of stuff as opposed to one streamlined thing
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So Sheer Spite does kind of a whole bunch of stuff. Here’s a list of types of things Sheer Spite sells: Print and digital zines that I (Lee, the…
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on sliding scale zine pricing, and the economics of running a tiny press
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Pricing creative work is notoriously difficult. I find it especially so for zines. In running Sheer Spite, two things that are important to me are supporting people in making…
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sheer spite’s fall/winter 2025 releases!
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I am exceptionally proud to announce a great lineup of new work for sheer spite’s fall/winter season! The U.S. store will be here soon– I know I’ve been saying…
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Five things zine fairs do that I love
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Hello! I’ve been thinking about zine fairs (and book fairs, small press fairs, and other places where people stand behind a table and sell you little booklets). I’ve tabled…
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hot hot zine summer ’25, what’s new?
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Hot summer, amazing art, lots of travel, global atrocities, the constant struggle to stay oriented towards justice and beauty and care, zines? Let’s go: The Writings of Shahd Alnaami,…
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what I learned from my zine tour
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I spent most of the spring in Europe doing a ~*~ zine business tour ~*~, which is kind of a wild thing to be able to do! I sold…
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spring 2025 zine lineup!
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We have a really thrilling spring lineup of new publications for you: I’ll talk more about each of these below, but I wanted to first let you know that…