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REPUBLISHED: Our responsibility to one another

On seeing and being seen

Dec 16, 2025 • Macey Shofroth

REPUBLISHED: We can't interrogate the world without ugly

On ugly's power within our art

Dec 4, 2025 • Macey Shofroth

REPUBLISHED: I don't want to write about anger.

Crushing the structures of solitude

Nov 20, 2025 • Macey Shofroth

The Musings of a Midwest Creative #3

Hey, let's bring this back I guess

Mar 19, 2025 • Macey Shofroth

The Midwest Creative is back for 2025

Jan 14, 2025 • Macey Shofroth

10 Things I've Learned from 100 Posts on Substack

And how I hope to write the next 100

Nov 22, 2024 • Macey Shofroth

What Life is Letting Me Read Lately

10 books that excited me in 2024 and my evolving relationship to reading

Oct 30, 2024 • Macey Shofroth

The Discomfort with Being Perceived

And what it looks like to no longer care

Oct 23, 2024 • Macey Shofroth

Communities are built upon the shoulders of independent bookstores

On "How to Save Bookstores and Why: The present and Future of Bookselling" by Danny Caine

Oct 9, 2024 • Macey Shofroth

The Ways We Fracture

A review of Friendly Fire: A Fractured Memoir by Paul Rousseau

Oct 2, 2024 • Macey Shofroth

A Look Back at the Midwest Creative

Reflecting on how my voice has developed + An offer for paid subscribers

Sep 26, 2024 • Macey Shofroth

Anthony Arroyo and the documentation of formerly neglected spaces

"Taquerias en la University" explores the cultural significance of taco trucks in Des Moines

Sep 11, 2024 • Macey Shofroth

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