Reading
On books, reading, and writers.
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This is Water: Everybody worships; the only choice we get is what to worship
From a commencement address given by David Foster Wallace: Learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what…
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Skin Stealer
This evening I unzipped my skin And carefully unscrewed my head, Exactly as I always do When I prepare myself for bed. And while I…
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On Not Going Home: Once you emigrate, it’s never truly possible to come back
This essay by James Wood expresses something that I’ve been feeling myself for some time now. I left Austria when I was 18, and I’ve…
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Shel Silverstein
Writing for both young kids and for Playboy, Shel Silverstein has one of the most interesting biographies I’ve come across. He also wrote the Johnny…
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Other Minds
My five-year-old daughter said that spiders are insects and I was almost sure that they weren’t until she showed me a worksheet her kindergarten teacher…
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The Night is Darkening Round Me
The night is darkening round me, The wild winds coldly blow; But a tyrant spell has bound me And I cannot, cannot go. The giant…
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