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How to write a novel for the age of the algorithm? Look to the literature of the past. Look to Thomas Bernhard

househousemagazine.com·16w·Hacker News

Why Satyendra Nath Bose was more than Einstein’s sidekick

aeon.co·16w·Hacker News

The war between writers and editors can be long, brutish, and nasty. "Every semicolon was a matter of life or death”

hedgehogreview.com·16w·Hacker News

With subfields dominated by lefty-activists and new centers for conservatives, what is the state of academic viewpoint diversity?

chronicle.com·16w·r/longform

They Wanted a University Without Cancel Culture. Then Dissenters Were Ousted.

politico.com·17w·Substack, Hacker News, r/Longreads, r/longform

Scientists in Dreamland

theamericanscholar.org·17w·Hacker News

A (Really) Brief History Of Knowledge

colinmcginn.net·17w·Hacker News

"Some gentlemen are dandies, but most dandies are not gentlemen." What unites the superior air, exaggerated sense of style, and sartorial splendor?

wsj.com·16w

When we turned time into a line, we reimagined past and future

aeon.co·17w·Hacker News, r/longform

​’How do you really tell the truth about this moment?’: George Saunders on ghosts, mortality and Trump’s America

theguardian.com·17w

How Bennett Cerf — "part Gatsby, part glad-handing salesman and part starstruck fanboy" — built a publishing powerhouse, and sold it away

wapo.st·17w

The crisis whisperer: how Adam Tooze makes sense of our bewildering age

theguardian.com·17w·Hacker News, Hacker News

The Work Behind the Writing: On Writers and Their Day Jobs

lithub.com·17w·Hacker News, r/longform

Margaret C. Anderson, the editor of The Little Review, was forced to choose between her magazine and her house — and so she moved into a tent

theatlantic.com

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Punctuation and its discontents. "To monitor one’s tone is human, but why are we this scared of sounding brusque in routine emails?"

nytimes.com

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Against Generative AI: Is Art the Last Refuge of Our Humanity?

lithub.com·17w·Hacker News

The Strange Tale Of Sigmund Freud’s Begonia

observer.co.uk

·18w·Hacker News, r/longform

One night in 1973, three Jackson Pollock paintings were stolen. The case continues to reverberate in surprising ways

wapo.st·17w

Anne Lamott’s Battle Against Writer’s Block

newrepublic.com·18w

The idea of revolution has transformed political thought across two millennia. Can we even agree on what it means?

thenation.com·17w·Hacker News

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