Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College, and Don’t Use AI To Write a Condolence Note
Curated reads.
Favorite Essays I Read in the Past Two Weeks:
In Palestine, searching for the remains of my grandmother’s village
Are you really celebrating your mother, or are you acting like you’re celebrating your mother?
How do you ask a dying man to accept a pig’s heart?
Everyone is cheating their way through college
The complicated grief of losing my favorite student
Home is a word unspoken
Favorite Short Stories I Read in the Past Two Weeks:
The smallest boys must tell the biggest stories
My career as a precocious literary girlie
Favorite Sentences I Read in the Past Two Weeks:
“On subway seats, in coffee shops, across candlelit tables, I see people with scars and spots and dark under-eye circles being held and kissed and loved like it’s the most natural thing in the world.” –link
“I don’t think it’s polished prose I want so much as honest prose, something written from the bones that enters into the bones.” –link
“With any creative job, if you keep learning and nourishing your brain (and are lucky enough to stay healthy), you only get better with age.” –link
Favorite Paragraphs I Read in the Past Two Weeks:
“There are all kinds of reasons to be on the page. Because you are serious about what you’re trying to accomplish with your words. Because you are trying to solve a problem, and this is the most logical way for you to attack it. Because you are trying to write your way to somewhere new. Because you are simply trying to track and remember events in your life so you won’t forget them.” –link
“There is a possibility that some men are looking for a barely sentient Stepford wife with skin like glass, like a screen, like an inanimate object under their thumbs. But there are also many men who want a real, live, regular partner. On subway seats, in coffee shops, across candlelit tables, I see people with scars and spots and dark under-eye circles being held and kissed and loved like it’s the most natural thing in the world. Because it is! You don’t have to fix a single thing about your face to find that.” –link
Favorite Writing Advice I Read in the Past Two Weeks:
Show, Don’t Tell: What AI Can’t Do
A brief portrait of failure as a friend
An author and editor’s plea to writers in the age of AI
Etcetera
Don’t use AI to write a condolence note
How to make a living as a writer
That time I read 70+ books in a few months
A reading list on walking
Writers should be kind to themselves
How a global online network of white supremacists groomed a teen to kill
Telling the bees