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I Published 100 Essays. Five Got More Reads Than the Other 95 Combined
13+ hour, 55+ min ago (106+ words) What 100 essays taught me about attention, obscurity, and the impossibility of predicting what people will care about I don’t …...
Paul Levine: The Common Sense Guide to the Messy Business of Writing
1+ day, 15+ hour ago (820+ words) Harlan Coben, one of our most accomplished spinners of suspense yarns, makes no promise that his hybrid writing manual and memoir will turn you into a bestselling novelist. His message: Writing isn’t one-size-fits-all. My take: Plot Twist is smart, useful…...
The "For You" Is Against Me
2+ day, 10+ hour ago (409+ words) I have a vague memory, back around the mid-90s, of the exact moment this whole internet thing landed on our shores. The promise was beautiful, almost a cyber Woodstock. They swore up and down the web would be the new Library…...
Why Catholics Should Read Classic Fiction
2+ day, 18+ hour ago (20+ words) Classic fiction will help Catholics to grow in wisdom and virtue through the literary presence of goodness, truth, and beauty....
The Forgotten Bestseller That Saw The Collapse Of Privacy Coming
4+ day, 23+ min ago (104+ words) Times Now The Forgotten Novel That Saw The End Of Privacy Coming (Picture Credit - Pinterest) Also Read:The Forgotten Bestseller That Predicted the Internet’s Dark Side One of Eggers's most prescient inventions is SeeChange, a network of tiny cameras that…...
We Are Already In A Dystopian Society
4+ day, 8+ hour ago (577+ words) Vocal We Are Already In A Dystopian Society A Review of Obstetrix by Naomi Kritzer After being acquitted for performing the last abortion in North Dakota, Liz is still trying to find a job as a doctor. She applies to…...
What We Are Reading Today: ‘Smart as a Fish’ by Tyrone Lucon-Xiccato
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Encounters with Dr. Resil Mojares: The constant stranger at bookstores
1+ week, 1+ day ago (725+ words) Before knowing who he was, I always figured him to be that quiet old stranger who had a lifelong obsession with books (or to quote Isaac Babel, when one of his characters ran a hand over the forehead of a…...
The Great Analog Rebellion
1+ week, 2+ day ago (799+ words) We’ve “optimized” our lives to death. Can we please reclaim some joy already? The joy of going analog / Illustration by James Boyle Back in May, a friend asked if I wanted to see Bruce Springsteen the following night at Xfinity…...
Traffic Doc, Grammar Man and more fill this 'delight' of a book
1+ week, 2+ day ago (818+ words) You think you know a person. For decades Ron Hartung, he of the lean frame, dry wit, thoughtful goatee and vast insider knowledge of the language arts, edited my newspaper columns. Though we kept a disciplined pace with Ron polishing…...