- Colleen Bennett, “Why It’s Not Sexist To Call Women ‘Girls’” (Refinery 29)
- Monica Bielanko, “Why I Can Never Order from Chipotle Again” (Quiet Revolution)
- Jane Gottlieb, “At New York Apple Orchards, an Autumn Tradition Strays From Its Core” (NY Times)
- Gary Gutting and Nancy Fraser, “A Feminism Where ‘Lean In’ Means Leaning On Others” (The Stone / NY Times Opinionator)
- Aisha Harris, “TV Is More Diverse than Ever—on Screen. Why Not in the Writers’ Room?” (Slate)
- Rebecca Rosenblum, “What Happens When a Literary Submission Gets Published in a Journal/Magazine” (Rose Coloured)
- Herbert Yager, “Saul Bass On His Approach To Designing Movie Title Sequences” (Medium)
Category Archives: Reading
Some things I read this month
- Josef Adalian, “Network TV’s Ultimate Survivor” (Vulture)
- Michelle Dean, “‘I cannot be that person’: why the ‘Queen of the Mommy Bloggers’ had to quit” (The Guardian)
- Katie Hyslop, “‘Sessional’ Instructors: Return of the Penniless Scholar?” (The Tyee)
- Brian Moylan, “The Many Stages of Life After Reality TV” (Vulture)
- James Victore, “Dangerous Ideas on Design Education” (Print)
Some things I read this month
- Sadaf Ahsan, “Forget the MFA – becoming a YouTube star is the new fast track to a book deal” (National Post)
- Catie Disabato, “Why It’s Hard To Talk About My Bisexuality” (Buzzfeed)
- Roxane Gay, “The Charge to Be Fair: Ta-Nehisi Coates and Roxane Gay in Conversation” (Barnes & Noble Review)
- Josh Giesbrecht, “How The Ballpoint Pen Killed Cursive” (The Atlantic)
- Chris Guillebeau, “Let the Wave Crash Over You: A Letter for My Brother” (The Art of Non-Conformity)
- Kate McCahill, “You’ll Never Walk Alone: On Traveling the World with Books” (The Millions)
- Jeanne McCulloch & Mona Simpson, “Alice Munro, The Art of Fiction No. 137” (The Paris Review)
- Catherine Nichols, “Homme de Plume: What I Learned Sending My Novel Out Under a Male Name” (Jezebel)
- Jevon Phillips, “Felicia Day lets the world know that ‘You’re Never Weird on the Internet (Almost)’” (The LA Times)
- Joshua Rothman, “Seeing and Hearing for the First Time, on YouTube” (The New Yorker)
- John Stanton, “The Troubled Resurrection Of Black America’s Historic Beach Haven” (Buzzfeed)
- Megan Tifft, “The Agony of Community” (The Atlantic)
Some things I read this month
- Jesse Browner, “Quote Unquote” (The Paris Review)
- Erin Coulehan, “Leading the double Instagram life: When the secret “fake” account looks infinitely more real” (Salon)
- Briallen Hopper, “On Spinsters” (Los Angeles Review of Books)
- Julie Lythcott-Haims, “Kids of Helicopter Parents Are Sputtering Out” (Slate)
- Brett Martin, “How This Chef Saved My Life” (GQ)
- Patt Morrison,”Privilege makes them do it — what a study of Internet trolls reveals” (The LA Times)
- George Plimpton & Frank H. Crowther, “E. B. White, The Art of the Essay No. 1” (The Paris Review)
- Maria Popova, “Georgia O’Keeffe on Art, Life, and Setting Priorities” (Brainpickings)
- Zadie Smith, “What It Means to Be Addicted to Reading” (Oprah’s Book Club)
- Katy Waldman, “The Incredible Shrinking Zeitgeist: How Did This Great Word Lose Its Meaning?” (Slate)
- Gary Younge, “Farewell to America” (The Guardian)
Some things I read this month
- , “‘Just’ Joking? Sexist Talk in Science” (Absolutely Maybe)
- Buzz Bissinger, “Caitlyn Jenner: The Full Story” (Vanity Fair)
- Sara Boboltz, “The Story Of Nancy Drew, Once Far More Ballsy Than The Girl Sleuth You Know” (The Huffington Post)
- Elizabeth Gaffney, “Lorrie Moore, The Art of Fiction No. 167” (The Paris Review)
- Allegra Hyde, “The Rumpus Interview with Matthew Baker” (The Rumpus)
- Olga Khazan, “Can Sexuality Be Changed?” (The Atlantic)
- Molly McArdle, “‘He’s Out’: The Exile of Ed Champion” (Brooklyn Magazine)
- Kate Pullinger, “The way we tell stories is evolving along with our smartphones” (The Conversation)
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Rebecca Solnit, “Listen up, women are telling their story now” (The Guardian)
Some things I read this month
- Zosia Bielski, “In her new book, Kate Bolick argues why there’s nothing wrong with being a ‘spinster’” (The Globe and Mail)
- Mairead Case, “Draw Us Lines: Reading Harold and the Purple Crayon” (Bookslut)
- Elizabeth Gaffney, “Lorrie Moore, The Art of Fiction No. 167” (The Paris Review)
- Jenny Kleeman, “The Wikipedia wars: does it matter if our biggest source of knowledge is written by men?” (The New Statesman)
- Nicole Lee, “Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: ‘Fear of causing offence becomes a fetish’” (The Guardian)
- Emily Matchar, “Sorry, Etsy. That Handmade Scarf Won’t Save the World” (The New York Times)
- Hannah Petertil, “Everything You Need to Know About Chili Pastes” (Food52)
Some things I read this month
- Sari Botton, “The Perils of Writing About Your Own Family: A Conversation with George Hodgman” (Longreads)
- Michael Heald, “The Writer Runner” (Runner’s World)
- Dustin Illingworth, “Hating eBooks, Loving Life” (Full Stop)
- Adrienne Lafrance, “The Web is the Real World” (The Atlantic)
- Nick Ripatrazone, “So Many Hills: Writing as Training” (The Millions)
- Zadie Smith, “Some Notes on Attunement” (The New Yorker)
- Katy Waldman, “Frontiers of the Stuplime” (Slate)
Some things I read this month
- The incredible true story behind the Toronto mystery tunnel
- Carmen Maria Machado, “O Adjunct! My Adjunct!” (The New Yorker)
- Mac McClelland, “How I Learned To Be OK With Feeling Sad” (Buzzfeed)
- Dani Shapiro, “Tweet, Memory” (The New Yorker)
Some things I read this month
- Joel Achenbach, “Why Do Many Reasonable People Doubt Science?” (National Geographic)
- Hannah Gerson, “Calendars, Timelines, and Collages: Mapping the Imaginary” (The Millions)
- Mary Norris, “Holy Writ” (The New Yorker)
- Tony Schumacher, “Published at 46: ‘I’d blown the one dream I’d always had – of being a writer’” (The Guardian)
- Zadie Smith, “Life Writing” (Rookie)
- Tom Spears, “Why don’t people trust science?” (The Vancouver Sun)
- Julie Marie Wade, “The Rumpus Interview with Susanne Paola Antonetta” (The Rumpus)
Some things I read this month
- John Dickerson, “The Teacher Who Changed My Life“
- Julia Galef, “Surprise! The most important skill in science or self-improvement is noticing the unexpected” (Slate)
- Heather Havrilesky, “How to Write” (The Awl)
- Maria Popova, “Madeleine L’Engle on Creativity, Hope, Getting Unstuck, and How Studying Science Enriches Art” (Brainpickings)
- Sara Scribner, “Roxane Gay: ‘I think the world is ambivalent about feminism’” (Salon)
- Megan Stielstra, “What Would You Grab in a Fire?” (The New York Times)
- Edra Ziesk, “Glad Hall: On the Cycles of Home” (The Millions)
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