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The Earthquake That Will Devastate the Pacific Northwest | The New Yorker
Kathryn Schulznewyorker.comIt’s not for nothing that Kafka spoke of literature as “a hatchet with which we chop at the frozen seas inside us.”
David Foster Wallace • Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays
Reminded that this is one of the great literary essays of the century...a creative non-fiction fictionalization of a real person’s artistic creation. https://t.co/m8m0RvR3L2
Most truths are like that, easy to hear or recite, hard to live in the sense that slowness is hard for most of us, requiring commitment, perseverance, and return after you stray. Because the job is not to know; it’s to become. A sociopath knows what kindness is and how to weaponize it; a saint becomes it.
lithub.com • Rebecca Solnit: Slow Change Can Be Radical Change
Writing is a generosity, even to yourself.
Kurt Vonnegut • Pity the Reader: On Writing with Style
In some ways, the distinction between normalcy and pathology is arbitrarily defined—as well as hard to measure.
Meghan O'Rourke • The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
Recently, New York Times Magazine writer Sam Anderson and I spoke about how describing something well is both an act of incredible generosity and a literary challenge of the highest order.