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The state of the blog
This Substack has gained a lot of subscribers in the last three months. On June 16th of this year, it had 750 subscribers. As of today, it has over 1750. Six hundred of those subscribers came in the last month alone.
I don't really know what to make of that. Although some of the increase has come because of Great Books posts (posts on Hinduism and Gandhi were relatively popular), by far the biggest part has come from a series of posts critical of the contemporary literary world.
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