introducing the dispatch
entering my newsletter era
Dear reader,
Since I posted my most recent essay last Monday, no more mangoes has gone from 287 subscribers to 335 and counting. First of all, I just want to say—holy shit. To all of my new subscribers, welcome, and to those of you who’ve already been subscribed, welcome back. And to all of you, new and old alike—thank you all so, so much for your readership and your support.
I know that my tone in this message is a bit more conversational than my usual posts here. That’s because today, I’m excited to introduce a new series in the no more mangoes cinematic universe, called the dispatch. Here, I’ll be posting updates on what I’m reading, listening to, etc., as well as shorter musings and reflections. I’m not 100% sure what this will end up looking like, but that’s the general idea.
The idea for the dispatch arose out of the fact that since moving to London for grad school in August, I’ve found it increasingly difficult to produce longform essays as regularly as I would like—especially because no more mangoes is just one of several writing projects that I’ve been juggling. I want to be realistic about my capacity and avoid overextending myself and burning out, but I also want to continue engaging with my subscribers as frequently as I can. To that end, I thought it would be nice to have a platform that’s more akin to a traditional newsletter/blog, with shorter and more informal posts. Enter the dispatch.
Going forward, I’ll definitely still be writing the sort of longer essays that I’ve been sharing thus far, but hopefully with less self-imposed pressure to churn them out on a particular schedule. Meanwhile, I hope to send out new installments of the dispatch with as much regularity as possible, all of which will be available in one place under the “dispatch” tab on the no more mangoes homepage.
At the moment, the dispatch is 100% free along with the rest of the content on this blog, but as the no more mangoes community continues to grow and I continue to pursue writing as a more serious endeavor, at some point in the future I do hope to transition to a premium subscription model so that I can keep sustaining this work into the future. When does that happen, this newsletter will probably become one of the perks reserved for premium subscribers, but for now it remains completely free to all.
I don’t have any concrete plans to shift to a paid model anytime in the immediate future, but if you really love no more mangoes and you think that you would be interested in becoming a premium subscriber when that option does open up, I would really love if you could pledge a future subscription by clicking the “pledge your support” button at the bottom of this email (or, if you’re reading this on a desktop browser, at the top right of the screen)! If you do make a pledge, you won’t be charged until I enable premium subscriptions at some point in the future. But even if you don’t want to pledge a future subscription, I hope you can share this blog with anyone in your life who might appreciate it! So many of my subscribers have come from my essays being shared on social media and through word of mouth, and it makes me really happy to wathc this community continue to grow.
Thank you all again from the bottom of my heart for all of your kind words and support since I launched no more mangoes last May. As I wrote about in my essay “finding my way back home” back in July, the last year or so for me has been defined in large part by my rekindling my relationship with writing, and this Substack has been a huge part of that. I am so excited to keep writing and keep sharing my words with you all in the future, and I hope you’ll stay a part of this community!
Stay tuned for the first official installment of the dispatch, hopefully coming out sometime next week :)
Best,
Pranay