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In order to treat his Crohn's disease, writer Andrew Chapman had to stop eating for three weeks and get all his nutrition from an IV bag. He writes for @longreads about what he missed in his time without food — social contact, black pepper crabs, roast chicken — and why he became obsessed with watching cooking shows.
Dickey Betts, cofounder of the Allman Brothers Band, died last week. In this essay for Paste, Matt Mitchell remembers his work on "Eat a Peach" and "Brothers and Sisters." "I contend that, between February 1972 and August 1973, there was no greater rocker walking among us than Dickey Betts," Mitchell writes. "Most musicians would kill to write 'Blue Sky,' 'Jessica' and 'Ramblin’ Man' over the course of a long career; Betts did it in just 16 months’ time, a creative peak few musicians of his caliber, genre and longevity have ever paralleled."
It's always been hard to make a living as a writer, but in 2024, it's harder than ever. Dirt has published this depressing but essential essay by David Hill, a union organizer turned author, on the grim reality of writing life. "At the time the National Writers Union was founded [in 1981], $1 a word was considered a bare-minimum rate for freelance writing ... Today it is no longer considered the floor, but a ceiling."
"And this is the point: first came Adderall, then came the Internet. We didn’t get on Adderall because the Internet was too good. The Internet was good in the particular way that it was good because we were on Adderall."
A @pluralistic instant classic. I was familiar with many of the concepts he articulates from previous pieces of his I'd read, but not "schismogenesis," which I admit I was guilty of concerning the COVID vaccine. A must-read if you're not acquainted with Doctorow's brilliance. #essay#recommendedreading
Here Be Dragons or: NUCLEAR YINYANG (sub-subtitle: "her love became a nuclear bomb")
8000 words inspired by #BreathOfFireIV covering: friendship, renting apartments, envy, #WorldWarII, and the #ethics of death. also several #music references to the point where the footnotes are practically a playlist of my time writing this #essay
'Bullshitten' omdat het kan, door Dilan Yesilgöz #VVD
Debatteren en beargumenteren zonder je erom te bekommeren of wat je zegt wel waar is. Praten zonder je wezenlijk te interesseren voor de waarheid - @SheilaS
"If anything is novel about UATX’s model, it is the creation of a rightwing monoculture in the form of a university, rather than a thinktank or policy institute."
For The New Inquiry, Noah Rawlings writes about the University of Austin's Forbidden Courses program, or what he describes as “a sort of anti-woke summer camp."
In this moving #essay Laura Leigh Abby recounts how the experience of having a child needing critical surgery taught her what it means when people really show up for you.
Hey Fedi!
I'm writing an argumentative essay about why cats should not be allowed outdoors unsupervised. If anyone of you have some cool papers relating to this I can read about and add, that'd be very helpful :D
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