Journal Entry Sending out a New Year’s SOS, and making a resolution An update regarding my recent absence, and a resolution — despite my soul’s fatigue — to keep on keepin’ on.
Meet Me at the Edge of the World: the 2025 Nowhere Else Festival keynote address Here is a revised, expanded version of the keynote address I delivered at the 2025 Nowhere Else Festival in Martinsville, Ohio on Labor Day Weekend.
Give Me Some Light If Tolkien were to speak at a No Kings protest . . . Some words from the letters of J.R.R. Tolkien resonate right now.
Journal Looking Back: Overstreet online in 2000–2001 After 25 years of writing about the arts, I revisit discoveries that have been most memorable and meaningful. Here’s Part 1 of many.
JeffreyOverstreet.com Welcome to the new JeffreyOverstreet.com! Here is a video welcome from Jeffrey Overstreet and a special guest for visitors and subscribers old and new!
Interviews The Event Of Poetry: Poet Scott Cairns On Reading, Writing, And Responsibility From the archives: In 2000, I interviewed the poet Scott Cairns, who would become the director of Seattle Pacific's MFA in Creative Writing program, and a mentor.
Journal Entry Fundamentals of Fatherhood: Reflections on My Father's Life (in Four Parts) I offered a much-abridged version of these reflections at the Celebration of Life service in memory of my father, Larry Overstreet, at Damascus Community Church on Saturday, June 21.
Give Me Some Light On January 20, 2025, I celebrate the inspired Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the great President Jimmy Carter
Give Me Some Light A personal update, a request, and a preview In which Overstreet quickly summarizes the calamities of the last two weeks and the subsequent revision of his plans for the month of December.
Film Review Killers of My Substack Journal: New films by Scorsese and Fincher In a season of intensifying violence — in American neighborhoods, and in battlefields of global significance — some of our best filmmakers are telling stories about gun-wielding villains. I've just published thoughts on The Killer and Killers of the Flower Moon.
Give Me Some Light The Yowling: a reflection on a most annoying noise that's been troubling my home and screaming in my bones...
Give Me Some Light Recovery Report 2: If you're not lucky enough to live in a bookstore, discover the joy of one who does.
Give Me Some Light Recovery Report: My first surgery and Asteroid City! I'm on drugs! Writing about Wes Anderson!
Give Me Some Light The day has arrived: I can share my big news. For you, friends and subscribers, here's a first look at the big turn my life is taking.
