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Commonplace Bert

About the Substack

diatribes and distractions, usually bookish

About Joel Cuthbertson

Joel Cuthbertson is a writer and librarian from Denver. His fiction and essays have appeared in Electric Lit, Joyland Magazine, New England Review, the LARB, LitHub, and more.

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