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So much of the world is not made by people, and paying attention to that is important to me.”
Rachel Cooke • ‘I’ve Dealt With Anti-Hillbilly Bigotry All My Life’: Barbara Kingsolver on JD Vance, the Real Appalachia and Why Demon Copperhead Was Such a Hit
Over the past ten years, media companies have responded to their loss of audience by creating “viral” editorial that performs well inside the platform’s engagement-at-all-costs ecosystem. Predictably, however, quality editorial – the context journalists create for a living – rarely qualifies as viral.
John Battelle • John Battelle's Search Blog Marketers Have Given Up on Context, And Our National Discourse Is Suffering
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Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience.
Susan Sontag • Against Interpretation: And Other Essays
“The screen experience is so reductionist,” Casimiro said. “It just flattens the world, so that a Pulitzer Prize-winning story feels the same as spam. Some things deserve better.”
John Branch • In a Digital Age, High-End Outdoors Magazines Are Thriving in Print
check out F. Scott Fitzgerald’s collection of seventeen short stories featuring Pat Hobby, a down-and-out screenwriter and boozing hack trying to still make a living in Hollywood.
Daniel Martin Eckhart • Write Write Write
M. E. Rothwell on Substack
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