Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
a profoundly unequal place, Whiteness is supposed to mean something. Whenever that is threatened, a hot resentment bubbles.
Imani Perry • South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
O’Connor’s “Good Country People,”
D. T. Max • Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
it referred to what the piece defined as tastelessness marked by "a contrast of luxury and squalor."$9
Harvey R. Neptune • Caliban and the Yankees: Trinidad and the United States Occupation
But it was one thing to allow someone to kill for you and another to let him live next door.
Colson Whitehead • The Nickel Boys
objects can be algorithmically individualized.
Matthew G. Kirschenbaum • Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination (The MIT Press)
fiction with detail and nuance.
Charles Johnson • The Way of the Writer: Reflections on the Art and Craft of Storytelling
quotidian
Rumaan Alam • Leave the World Behind
blacks “were rather weird creatures dedicated to nonviolence in the midst of a nation as violent as America is, has been, and will be.”