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John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
propitious
Madeline Miller • The Song of Achilles: A Novel
Ball and Enjeti are not immensely popular influencers earning many millions of dollars from a vast audience of followers. But they’re also not toiling away on a show that’s effectively a nonprofitable side hustle. They instead fall into a middle ground that Lanier despaired didn’t exist for creative professionals. The total budget for “Breaking Poi... See more
Cal Newport • The Rise of the Internet’s Creative Middle Class
Did women really assemble themselves out of the parts they thought most likely to be wanted? Was that love’s requirement? If so, she’d have none of it.
Sarah Perry • Enlightenment
If you’re a young woman who wants to write fiction, it’s useful to read zeitgeist-y contemporary writers like Sally Rooney, Ottessa Moshfegh, Elena Ferrante, and Mary Gaitskill—but you’d be missing a great deal by not reading Clarice Lispector and Edith Wharton.
Celine Nguyen • Everything I Read in July 2024
How to be Roman