"The way she explains it to her clients, she said, is that they provide the raw materials to build a house and she puts it together, brick by brick. “You own the bricks,” she said she tells them."

"I’ve been teaching English for 12 years, and I’m astounded by what ChatGPT can produce."

"I hit send and immediately felt a little bit better. My shame had been a crawling, active thing, invading my chest late at night in my freezing Vermont bedroom, forcing me at random moments to grab at my shirt and grit my teeth so hard _...Read More_

“Not the Great American Novel but its Jungian shadow.”

>"The actor Jennette McCurdy’s memoir is a confessional feat that asks what, if anything, adult children owe an abusive parent."

>"I have always viewed writing fiction as moral work, but never before had it felt so urgent."

>"A new film about Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb is a rare window into a relationship that usually goes undocumented."

"I used to do this! It's how I paid the bills when I was freelance, I wrote some of the more viral posts on LinkedIn about startup _...Read More_

>"In fact, all the reviews from his Longreads and Reallylongreads have been like this recently, claiming to be about one thing only to be about something else — usually Sally Rooney, Ben Lerner, and Rachel Cusk, along with some kind of _...Read More_

This is such a beautifully constructed, thoughtful, and compassionate essay. If you're young and you feel you are "stuck" with "writing" as a career, you must read this.

"Teaching existentialism today raises questions about frustration and futility—and whether the old classroom methods still work."

"Lem's 1964 story, published in English for the first time, tells the tale of a scientist in an insane asylum theorizing that the sun is alive."

ohhhh shen

The main problem is that the contemporary American book review is first and foremost an audition — for another job, another opportunity, another day in the content mine, hopefully with better lighting and tools, but at the very least with _...Read More_