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The challenge for Substack, then, is to build an aggregator that improves the discovery and consumption experience for readers, while still honoring writers and staying true to their purpose.

Sari Azout • Check your Pulse #45

people like Tranströmer and Ondaatje and Wisława Szymborska are touchstones for me. It’s a long list: George Seferis, Anne Carson, Charles Simic, Sharon Olds, Seamus Heaney: anyone who has found a way to sidestep conventional syntax.

Teju Cole • Known and Strange Things

Pulphead: Essays

John Jeremiah Sullivan

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As the world hurtles on toward its mysterious rendezvous, the old act of slowly reading a serious book becomes an elegiac exercise.

Sven Birkerts • The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age

Publishers and the Smiling Curve

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How David Perell Writes an Essay

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- "Pater said beauty is impossible without some element of strangeness; the potential for beauty was built into his own “strange webs” of significance, spun in such writerly fashion around the object with which he was in dialogue. Criticism is one way to be the spider, paying out silk, both navigating and creating the web as one goes. What defines ... See more

Elizabeth Schambelan • Elizabeth Schambelan on criticism - Artforum International

Authorship, after all, is not only what is created but also what is selected.

Teju Cole • Known and Strange Things

Curators are API’s that exist between people and all the knowledge of the world.

An API is an “application programming interface” that allows two apps to communicate, sending data between someone requesting something and a database full of data.

A curator exists in the space between people who want to know more about a topic and the massive amounts