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Josh Riedel

Josh Riedel

Writer and publisher in Portland, Oregon — author of the novel "Please Report Your Bug Here" (Instagram's first employee) and editor of the Thirty Cabins project.

Sep 5, 2026

14:40
Here is Josh telling us a little bit more about the project.
14:43
The original book that the zine is based on was published in 1918 by Sunset Magazine, which is still in operation today.
14:53
It's like a United States West Coast lifestyle magazine.
14:58
But the original book was published in 1918, and it's called The Cabin Plan Book.
15:02
And I stumbled upon it when I was researching... something in the novel that I'm writing right now.
15:08
I think I wanted to know what a certain type of shingle on a cabin was called.
15:15
And so I started researching that, and I came across this book from 1918, and it was archived on Project Gutenberg, which takes copyright-free texts and puts them up on the internet.
18:11
But tell us, what was the pitch when you sent an email saying, I would love to have you in my compilation here?

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