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Up the Down Staircase

The teacher looked at her, looked away, and instead called on a White hand as soon as it was raised. As the Black girl’s arm came down, I could see her head going down. As I saw her head going down, I could see her spirits going down. I turned and looked up at the teacher, who, of course, was not looking at me. She was too busy engaging a favored

Ibram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist

What My Dog Taught Me About Mortality

Sam Anderson nytimes.com

'Beg your pardon, sir,' said Mr. Weller, senior, taking off his hat, 'I hope you've no fault to find with Sammy, Sir?' 'None whatever,' said Mr. Pickwick. 'Wery glad to hear it, sir,' replied the old man; 'I took a good deal o' pains with his eddication, sir; let him run in the streets when he was wery young, and shift for hisself. It's the only

CHARLES DICKENS • THE PICKWICK PAPERS (illustrated, complete, and unabridged)

“Kaho,” by Haruki Murakami | the New Yorker

Haruki Murakami newyorker.com

Taste requires originality. It invokes an aspirational authenticity. Writer George Saunders calls this “achieving the iconic space,” and it’s what he’s after when he meets his creative writing students. “They arrive already wonderful. What we try to do over the next three years is help them achieve what I call their “iconic space” — the place from... See more

Brie Wolfson • Notes on “Taste”

It is this genuine caring, and not your games with language, which will be the most compelling and seductive element in your style.

Kurt Vonnegut • Pity the Reader: On Writing with Style

I once asked a group of students on their final day at their prestigious university what book had changed their life over the previous four years. A long, awkward silence followed. Finally a student said, “You have to understand, we don’t read like that. We only sample enough of each book to get through class.” These students were hurrying to be... See more

David Brooks • You Might Be a Late Bloomer

anthropomorphically.”