- Michele Filgate, “‘Fear can be the enemy of empathy’: Leslie Jamison on Ferguson, Ebola and America’s painful 2014” (Salon)
- Mignon Fogarty, “2014 Word of the Year: Adulting” (Grammar Girl)
- , “Like Pushing an Elephant Into a Volkswagen” (The Morning News)
- Alissa Quart, “Hypereducated and on Welfare” (Elle)
- Xan Rice, “Miracle of the Tsunami” (New Statesman)
- Candace Rose Rardon, “The Power of (Not) Unplugging” (Intelligent Travel)
- Marybeth Seitz-Brown, “Young Women Shouldn’t Have to Talk Like Men to Be Taken Seriously” (Slate)
Tag Archives: Read in 2014
Some things I read this month
- Wei-Huan Chen, “Not so ‘bad’: Why we need Roxane Gay” (Journal and Courier Online)
- Felicity Cloake, “How to make the perfect grilled cheese sandwich” (The Guardian)
- Eric Felton, “The Road to Wellville” (National Geographic Travel)
- Elisa Gabbert, “How Writers Read (Vol. 1)” (The Believer Logger)
- Roxane Gay, “Only Words” (The Toast)
- Johannah King-Slutzky and Joe Howley, “In Which Three Adults Discuss A Wrinkle in Time Seriously and At Length” (The Toast)
- John Lanchester, “Shut Up and Eat” (The New Yorker)
- Edan Lepucki, “I Just Didn’t Like Her: Notes on Likeability in Fiction” (The Millions)
- Nick Ripatrazone, “Gestation of Ideas: On Vertical Writing and Living” (The Millions)
- Jon Sands, “So That If I Died It Mattered” (The Millions)
Some things I read this month
- Hannah Gerson, “One Long Country Song: What Friday Night Lights Taught Me About Storytelling” (The Millions)
- Kathleen Hale, “‘Am I being catfished?’ An author confronts her number one online critic” (The Guardian)
- Jessica Lahey, “How Stephen King Teaches Writing” (The Atlantic)
- Jen Sookfong Lee, “When the media fog looks eerily familiar“
- Lauren Markham, “The New Farmers” (Orion)
- Melissa Martin, “Do You Know About Jian” (Nothing In Winnipeg)
- Jon Michaud, “S. E. Hinton and the Y.A. Debate” (The New Yorker)
- Emily Nussbaum, “The Female Bad Fan” (The New Yorker)
- Brandon Schultz, “Frankie Grande on Big Brother and the Hetero-Homo ‘Zankie’ Showmance That Had Everyone Talking” (Out)
- Brandon Schultz, “Big Brother Star Zach Rance Sets Record ‘Straight’ on Frankie Grande Showmance” (Out)
Some things I read this month
- Sonya Chung, “On the Nightstand: On Deciding What to Read Next” (The Millions)
- Michelle Huneven, “The Trouble with Writing” (The Millions)
- Paige Brown Jarreau, “Why Every Journalism Student Should Blog” (SciLogs)
- Steven Pinker, “Why Academics Stink at Writing” (The Chronicle)
Some things I read this month
- Kerry Clare, “If Life Gave Me Lemons” (Joyland)
- Timothy Denevi, “The Historical Precursor to ADHD” (The Atlantic)
- Rebecca Mead, “The Pleasure of Reading to Impress Yourself” (The New Yorker)
- Matt Zoller Seitz, “Different Rules Apply” (MZS.)
- Dani Shapiro, “A Memoir Is Not a Status Update” (The New Yorker)
Some things I read this month
- Jessa Crispin, “An Interview with Pamela Bannos” (about Vivian Maier; Bookslut)
- Roxane Gay, “Noble Things” (fiction; A Public Space)
- Maria Konnikova, “Being a Better Online Reader” (The New Yorker)
- Sarah Menkedick, “Notes from the Milk Cave” (The Paris Review)
- Joyce Carol Oates, “To Invigorate Literary Mind, Start Moving Literary Feet” (from 1999; The New York Times)
- Vanessa Veselka, “Green Screen: The Lack of Female Road Narratives and Why it Matters” (The American Reader)
Some things I read this month
- Nadia Bozak, “Last Word: Nadia Bozak on writing intuitively” (Quill & Quire)
- Jared Gottlieb, “The Art of Mindful Photography” (Intelligent Travel)
- Blanche Howard, “The Stories We Tell” (guest post at Allyson Latta’s blog)
- Leslie Madsen-Brooks, “On fear at 39” (The Clutter Museum)
- Anne Helen Petersen, “Why You Should Read Like A Teen Again” (Buzzfeed)
- Kate Petersen, “Lives in Letters” (The Millions)
- Robert Reid, “The Ultimate Digital Detox: Walking” (Intelligent Travel)
- Sam Sacks, “Absent Friends: Lean Years of Plenty” (on Katherine Mansfield’s book reviews; Open Letters Monthly)
- Brittani Sonnenberg, “Home as a Verb: Writers on Choosing to Live Overseas” (The Millions)
- Sam Stephenson, “An Absolute Truth: On Writing a Life of Coltrane” (The Paris Review)
- James Wood, “On Not Going Home” (London Review of Books)
Some things I read this month
- Anonymous, “Race, Gender and Academic Jobs” (Inside Higher Ed)
- Ta-Nehisi Coates, “The Case for Reparations” (The Atlantic)
- Jessa Crispin, “To Be a Ghost” (The Smart Set)
- Susan B. Glasser, “Editing While Female” (Politico Magazine)
- Rose Lichter-Marck, “Vivian Maier and the Problem of Difficult Women” (The New Yorker)
- Kevin Nance, “These Beautiful Contradictions” (profile of Roxane Gay in Poets & Writers)
- Janet Potter, “If No One Sees It, Is it Still Art? On Finding Vivian Maier” (The Millions)
- Deidre L. Redmond, “A Black Female Professor Struggles With ‘Going Mean’” (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
- Rebecca Solnit, “Pandora’s Box and the Volunteer Police Force” (Guernica)
Some things I read this month
- Koa Beck, “The Legend of Vera Nabokov: Why Writers Pine for a Do-It-All Spouse” (The Atlantic)
- Kerry Clare, “Rereading Fear of Flying: On Not Being Pregnant in Mid-Air With Isadora Wing” (The Toronto Review of Books)
- Derek Finkle, “The Unpaid Internship Conspiracy” (Story Board)
- Steve Friedman, “Bret, Unbroken” (Runner’s World)
- Laurel Holland, “Finding a Life on the Edge” (Paris Review)
- Linda Holmes, “‘Say Anything’ At 25: Nothing Bought, Sold Or Processed” (Monkey See)
- Leslie Jamison, “How to Write a Personal Essay” (Publishers Weekly)
- Anna Leahy, “Brilliant People’s Schedules: The Real Story for Women Writers” (Huffington Post)
- Ariel Levy, “Thanksgiving in Mongolia” (The New Yorker)
- Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin, “You’ve Got Mail: On the New Age of Biography” (The Millions)
- Sadie Stein, “Lonely Hunter” (Paris Review)
- Richard Samuel West, “The Bill Watterson Interview” (The Comics Journal, from 1989)
Some things I read this month
- Ann Bauer, “When I sold out to advertising” (Salon)
- David Bezmozgis, “The Novel in Real Time” (The New Yorker)
- Edan Lepucki, “Life is Too Short to Read a Bad Book: A Conversation with My Editor” (The Millions)
- Ben Montgomery, “Writing the book: Ben Montgomery on Grandma Gatewood’s Walk” (Nieman Storyboard)
- Nick Ripatrazone, “No Right Path: Arriving at Writing from Outside the Humanities” (The Millions)
- Hanna Rosin, “The Overprotected Kid” (The Atlantic)
- Eva Saulitis, “Wild Darkness” (Orion Magazine)
- Gerda Saunders, “My Dementia: Telling Who I Am Before I Forget” (Slate)
- Sadie Stein, “Small Wonder” (Paris Review)
- Ivor Tossell, “The Story behind the Rob Ford Story” (The Walrus)
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