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Outer Banks

Oliver E — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 14:53:26 GMT

A long kitchen table, windows overlooking a quiet ocean-side street, wide and flat clouds stretching out as thin as the barrier islands themselves—these are my surroundings. We arrived at the Outer Banks three days ago, after a 9-hour drive to DC followed by another 10 hours here. As I wake up in the morning with a bagel and a cup of decaf coffee, I lo…

Madison

Oliver E — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 13:18:47 GMT

Whether I like it or not, I’m really in the home stretch of summer. Hot days with swimming, snack shacks, and ice cream, and cool nights with a fan blasting in my face as I lie awake with my most philosophical self are nearly over. So I might as well make the most of whats left.

On Wednesday I headed south to Connecticut to stay with my grandparents for …

Oregon once more

Oliver E — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 16:57:59 GMT

I leave this place tomorrow. Three weeks here passed so quickly, from the crashing waves and pelicans and caves at Falcon Cove to the ice tea sipped on the deck in Lake Oswego to the vintage stores and restaurants in Portland. So here I am, once more writing a post titled Oregon.

I accompanied my grandparents to the farmer’s market a few weeks ago, and f…

The Moral Cost of a "Long Run"

Oliver E — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 14:58:04 GMT

“250 years—It had a long run,” one of my older cousins concluded at the dinner table the other day. While some might think of history like one “long run” that ends, the question is should we be evaluating our history by the time that has passed, or the moral cost of how we got here?

Wherever we are in our nation’s timeline, there are many things that jus…

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Oliver E — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 16:18:49 GMT

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Oregon Again

Oliver E — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 16:43:52 GMT

Dear Readers,

Once again I find myself grounded by the tide, the swirling, rocking mass of water called the Pacific Ocean. Here, fog is the horizon, scraggly pines are the landscape, and then rocks, sand and sea below it.

The ocean is a truly fascinating place. Yesterday I spent hours digging holes in the wet sand, then building drip sand castles by the …

the music is like paper

Oliver E — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:02:00 GMT

Music is one of the most powerful things. Period. It can change the way we think, feel, and perceive the world, even beyond words. If music is poetry, songs are like poems. And underneath the words lies the paper the words are written on: the beat. The rhythm beneath, that guides and sways are inner selves on a level untouchable by any spoken language.

I…

The End of Spring

Oliver E — Mon, 25 May 2026 18:22:31 GMT

It’s that time of year when the mud has gone dry and the leaves have bloomed in fluffy explosions of green, and school, with two more weeks left, is the only thing stopping you from freedom. Outside your window, green grass and trees beckon you outside, competing with homework for the attention.

A gray cat perches on your windowsill, licking itself conte…

No Exclamations

Oliver E — Fri, 01 May 2026 21:48:30 GMT

Above you see an Olivetti Lettera 32—a classic Italian portable typewriter that has typed the lyrics of Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen. That machine has typed many of my words as well. I love it for the typos I make on it, the missing and replaced keys, and the lack of exclamation point on its keyboard.

Let me clarify; it’s not that I don’t write anything e…

Kendrick Lamar - A Modern Poet

Oliver E — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:29:49 GMT

If there’s one modern album that defines poetry, it’s DAMN. by Kendrick Lamar. DAMN. made Kendrick the first rapper to win a Pulitzer, and one of my favorite artists today. But it’s his lyricism that really speaks to me—like many others in his genre, Kendrick speaks to his struggles and his successes, interweaving tongue-in-cheek references and smart li…

Oregon

Oliver E — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 02:00:53 GMT

Dear readers,

I find myself writing to you on the Oregon coast, an expanse of black and gray rocks followed by wet, jellyfish-littered sand in front of me. Beyond that lies the great Pacific.

Being near the ocean causes me to think of what it’s like to never stop. Never stop moving, doing, talking. In fact, I somehow already know what this is like. But th…

The New Era; AI In Music

Oliver E — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 15:54:38 GMT

Suno AI, Voice Cloning, etc. and how it works

The AI Impact

Oliver E — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 21:00:53 GMT

Everyone wants to hear about AI these days, whether its writing emails with ChatGPT or coding with Replit. These tools have been integrated into what feels like every website and every platform online. And, for better or worse, music is no exception. From Spotify to Suno, AI has arrived in the music-making and listening industry.

There’s an app out the…

Olivetti Voice #1: A Preview

Oliver E — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:18:33 GMT

Bonus Content: Making The Enthusiast

Oliver E — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 21:01:44 GMT

Dear Readers,

As many of you know, I publish a monthly magazine called The Enthusiast. My subscriber base online almost entirely overlaps with my Enthusiast audience. However, Olivetti, my online publication, is not a part of The Enthusiast, rather a separate project by the same writer. (I got a few questions about that, so I thought I should clear it up…

"Together we are America" -Bad Bunny

Oliver E — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 22:01:28 GMT

Readers,

Enthusiast subscribers will soon see my review of Bad Bunny’s halftime performance at the Super Bowl 60 in print, and my Substack audience gets a preview: 24 days ago, Bad Bunny, an American citizen, got onstage in front of millions of people, and made a statement about identity, art, and politics. It helped that he is a very skilled singer. Yet…

welcome to olivetti

Oliver E — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 23:01:06 GMT

Dear Readers,

My name is Oliver, and I like writing. Some of you may be subscribers to my physical magazine, The Enthusiast. Some of you might not be. Either way, you’re here because you like reading something someone wrote—because reading provides a deep human connection between writer and reader, speaker and listener. Knowledge and opinion are transmit…