John’s Substack

About the Substack

Reflections, suggestions & discoveries from a long life of writing, editing, and reviewing. Posts should interest both writers (published and aspiring) and those rare beasts, people who simply love reading, and thinking about what they read.

About John Oughton

Retired college professor, poet (six books), photographer.

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