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Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
He warned the students against any effort by an editor to inject his own point of view into a writer’s work or to try to make him something other than what he is.
A. Scott Berg • Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
The desert offered a pantheon
Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
“Nepal’s forbidden to foreigners,” said Reggie. “You’ll be imprisoned, Richard.” The Deacon shook his head a final time. “Owings has friends there. His farm in the Khumbu Valley employs about a hundred locals, and he’s respected. He converted to Buddhism in nineteen nineteen—really converted, not like my meditate-in-the-morning,
... See moreDan Simmons • The Abominable: A Novel
Tim Griffin, the current editor in chief, took over the helm of the magazine in September 2003.
Sarah Thornton • Seven Days in the Art World
a standard military portrait taken of marine private, first class, Dion J. Stephenson of Bountiful, Utah, and so they used his prom picture and you can see the hook on the strap of his bow tie…. After you look at these pictures, the war becomes difficult to follow, because to be decent, you have to stop and love them and mourn their passing, and
... See moreJack Kornfield • The Wise Heart: A Guide to the Universal Teachings of Buddhist Psychology
Why was San Antonio built in a flood basin? How did it become such a tourist destination? Are the city’s social relations really so amicable, its political fabric truly multicultural? Why has it been so poor, and for so long?