Seeing Goodness More Clearly

Shemaiah Gonzalez Talks about Fighting for Joy, Making Life Work as a Writer, More

I met the writer Shemaiah Gonzalez on X (still Twitter in those days, I think) and followed her to Substack where she began writing a newsletter on joy. That project grew into a full-blown book earlier this year, Undaunted Joy: The Revolutionary Act of Cultivating Delight.

Readers of Miller’s Book Review might recall Gonzalez’s delightful essay about reading classic nov…