About Hell of a Bird

Hell of a Bird is where I write about whatever seems worth thinking through carefully in public — politics, film, media, and personal essays. There's also a deep archive of South Carolina Gamecocks football history from the newsletter's original run. It isn't going anywhere, but it's not where the new writing is coming from these days.

I'm Connor Tapp. This is where the writing lives that doesn't have anywhere else to go — too long for a tweet, too specific for a general-interest publication, too unwilling to pick a single beat to live on somebody else's masthead.

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