Some things I read this month

• Ann Hui, “Chop Suey Nation” (The Globe and Mail)
• Carolyn Y. Johnson, “The disturbing reason why we don’t believe young, black women are really doctors” (The Washington Post)
• Judith Matloff, “Program lifts aspiring writers from poverty, infuses media with fresh voices” (Columbia Journalism Review)
• Julia Moskin, “The Funfetti Explosion” (The New York Times)
• Jia Tolentino, “Interview With a Woman Who Recently Had an Abortion at 32 Weeks” (Jezebel)
• Carl Wilson, “The Impersonal is Political” (Slate)

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Some things I read this month

• Roxane Gay, “Black in Middle America” (Brevity)
• Daniel A. Gross, “The Encyclopedia Reader” (The New Yorker)
• Langston Hughes, “I, Too” (The New York Times)

Some things I read this month

• Jessi Cruickshank, “This is What Happens When the #Mendes Army Attacks” (Flare)
• Chris Koentges, “The Lonely End of the Rink” (Slate)
• Ben Yagoda, “Does Novel Now Mean Any Book?” (Slate)

Some things I read this month

• Nicole Dennis-Benn, “Innocence Is a Privilege: Black Children Are Not Allowed to Be Innocent in America” (Electric Literature)
• Jeffrey Meyers, “Iris Murdoch, The Art of Fiction No. 117” (The Paris Review)
• Lynn Stuart Parramore, “The Social Death Penalty: Why Being Ostracized Hurts Even More Than Bullying” (Alternet)
• Jordan G. Teicher, “Rarely Seen Color Images of America Emerging From the Great Depression” (Slate)
• Jess Zimmerman, “Hunger Makes Me” (Hazlitt)

different light

Nothing is a bad experience, no matter how horrible it is, if you can find a way to look at it in a different light.

—Todrick Hall

fundamental

Stories are a fundamental human form of thought.

—Iris Murdoch

innocence

Innocence, like freedom, is a privilege.

—Nicole Dennis-Benn

Some things I read this month

• Alexis Coe, “Thank You for Not Being Totally Worthless” (Lenny)
• Michael Lista, “Poetry Slam” (The Walrus)

Some things I read this month

• “Susan Cain and Molly Ringwald Discuss Introversion on Set and at Home” (Heleo)
• Helena Fitzgerald, “The Fierce Triumph of Loneliness” (Catapult)

Some things I read this month

• Kerry Gold, “A Modernist gem falls victim to Vancouver’s housing market” (The Globe and Mail)
• Sarah Knapton, “Staff should start work at 10am to avoid ‘torture’ of sleep deprivation” (The Telegraph)
• Merrill Perlman, “‘Chortle,’ and other words invented by Lewis Carroll” (Columbia Journalism Review)