Need is essential to be a writer.
Writing has given me my life! No negative effects.
It would be impossible for me to describe how out of the scope of my intelligence this question is. I write stories about herpes scares and getting colonics.
This is a story about everyone on earth whose name is not George Saunders. Since you are likely one of these humans, I hope you enjoy the attention.
Being a writer is like being a cockroach — there’s a lot of competition, though one rarely sees a skinny cockroach.
Teaching in the Margins: Eric Ellingsen
How can we design walking in the city as an education experiment so that we understand that the way we walk down the street reinforces or renegotiates the political and economic speeds investments feelings and systems in public space?
Teaching in the Margins: Matthew Goulish
Creativity thrives within limits, within the challenges that constraints pose, and the classroom offers a wealth of constraints.
Memory Under a Microscope: Memoir Culture and THE SCIENTISTS
Roth draws our attention to what memoir is — a constructed, self-conscious narrative plucked out of the hazy, episodic world of memory — and immediately sets his book as one apart from contemporary memoir culture.
Unheard Melodies in a Cacophony of Gabble: The Case for Goodreads
I hope we can be confident enough to always maintain an eternal amateurism—maybe one day we’ll even achieve an expert amateurism—thanks to humility in the face of the hundred thousand books we’ll never read.
Intellectual Infection: A Conversation About Donna Haraway
Seen in light of infection, evolution is always co-evolution. It becomes untenable to track the progress of an individual species the way Darwinian evolution does.