Chad Aaron Hall
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Chad Aaron Hall
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By the 1980s, Acker had also developed a rigorous editing method: She said that she rewrote every book eight times (!), each time with a different criteria in mind: “once for sound, once for meaning, once for ‘beauty’, once for structure, once in the mirror for performativity etc.”
Mason Currey • Kathy Acker Was Against Creativity
To the extreme reaches of the radical left, to those who dared to believe that some sort of second American Revolution was actually imminent, these years constituted a brief shining moment, perhaps its last. To others, the bombings were nothing more than homegrown terrorism; the excesses of the radical left during the 1970s helped nudge America
... See moreBryan Burrough • Days of Rage
The violence of the 1970s may explain why people were so eager to elect Ronald Reagan
Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas by Chuck Klosterman
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New research from Boston University suggests that tonight while you sleep, something amazing will happen within your brain. Your neurons will go quiet. A few seconds later, blood will flow out of your head. Then, a watery liquid called cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) will flow in, washing through your brain in rhythmic, pulsing waves.
Are We “Brain Washed” during Sleep?
Obviously, people are not as productive as they work longer and longer hours. It’s bad for health. It’s especially bad for women, people with families, people who have to care for elderly parents, people with children, and so forth. (My Hoover colleague Val Bolottnyy has a nice paper with Natalia Emanuel showing how overtime hurts women, even with... See more
Tax talk
The bulk of the work is researching—collecting stories, anecdotes, and data to marshal your argument. The writing is stringing those pieces together. I’ve found stuff I’ve used in in-flight magazines, discovered snippets on social media, even heard things mentioned on TV. As Shelby Foote put it in an interview with The Paris Review : “I can’t begin... See more
Ryan Holiday • These Are 23 Great Rules To Be A Productive Creative
Whenever you stumble upon an interesting thought on another site, write about it and link to it. Not only is it respectful to link to the person you quoted, but hyperlinks are also the magic force holding the Web together. They are both helpful and powerful. You can also add a links section to your site, where you collect interesting links you... See more
Matthias Ott • Into the Personal-Website-Verse
This is why I continually refer back to the early days of the personal website. Most website now seem to write everything as if the are auditioning for Wired or The New York Times. Everything is an "article." Every thing is big and overly structured. In contrast, the personal website was about the small, the raw, and the connection. It was about completely realized concepts. It was reactions and journals. "I just read this paragraph and I think this." As you can probably tell by now, I'm trying to bring this energy here—right now.
This was the case of Eleonora Duse, possessed by duende, who looked for plays that had failed so she could make them triumph thanks to her own inventions…
Federico García Lorca • In Search of Duende
This reminds me of Kathy Acker stealing passages and making them her own.