It Just Doesn’t Matter is a newsletter about things that do

My name is Erin Keane, and I write for a living. You can read my work at Salon and in the books I write. My latest book is Runaway: Notes on the Myths That Made Me, a memoir in essays about my complicated family story, pop culture, gender, and the stories we tell ourselves. It’s one of NPR’s best books of 2022. The name of this newsletter is an homage to Tripper’s iconic motivational speech in Meatballs. Read why here. Spoiler: “It just doesn’t matter if we win or lose” isn’t about nihilism — just the opposite.

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Author of RUNAWAY: Notes on the Myths that Made Me (Belt Publishing, one of NPR’s Best Books of 2022), editor of The Louisville Anthology, Chief Content Officer at Salon, co-producer and -host of These Miracles Work: A Hold Steady Podcast.