i am (in)souciant

Some old friends of mine started a new magazine in the last year called Souciant, “a magazine of politics and culture. Or culture and politics. It all depends on your starting point.” With the encouragement of Charlie Bertsch, I have a piece up on the Souciant web site called “Speakers, Cornered” that grew out of something I posted here last week. I think it’s a good piece, and it’s exciting to have it on Souciant, which is worth checking out in any event.

I couldn’t have done it without Charlie, who first got me to write it and then made editorial suggestions that raised it a level or two.

As I told one of my friends at the magazine, a professor once told me I was “insouciant”. Now that is finally true … I am indeed in Souciant.

Comments

[Charlie Bertsch]

I'm so glad to have you in the magazine. And I'm just as glad that I set you up for that punchline. Indeed, that professor's deeply fucked comment is the reason that the word "insouciant" started to percolate in my head.

[Steven Rubio]

Well, I should say in the professor's defense that the very fact I've always been so proud of that anecdote is probably proof he was right!

[Charlie Bertsch]

Steven: Right to a degree, wrong in his conclusions.