A list of reasons why you should not subscribe to Second Fig, in no particular order.
Seriously, who is Pearl Poet? The way I hear it, he hasn’t even been to college, and he’s certainly not been published anywhere prestigious or even accessible. Being in a poetry book collecting the work of local preteens when you were eleven does not a writer make. Also, they say he’s a nephew of Kaiser Wilhelm’s, and second cousin to the devil.
Why would you subscribe to a newsletter in order to learn too much about an extremely sincere teenager when you could just read The Catcher in the Rye again?
Why would you subscribe to a newsletter run by a teenager who just recommended you read The Catcher in the Rye again?
The writer is just going to put whatever he wants here. You never know what you’re going to get in any given email, just that you’re going to get them. That’s kind of scary.
It’s entirely possible that the writer will leave for greener pastures once he masters HTML and can transport his writing to his (currently still in-progress) Neocities.
A list of reasons why you should subscribe to Second Fig, in no particular order.
Hey, nothing ventured, nothing gained.
When Pearl Poet has his eighth Pulitzer, you’re going to wish you caught him before it was cool.
It’s free. What do you have to lose?
