Ana Menendez

The way to write is well, and how is your own business. A. J. Liebling. Prompts, news and thoughts on writing from a writer and teacher.

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An existential question for our times. Am I really me if I can't prove it to Delta Airlines? Unable to access miles because I forgot my "security" answers. Fix your bogus security protocol @Delta and serve your customers as if you were run by humans and not computers.

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New York Times internal report: We read it so you don't have to - Digiday http://t.co/MOy3AhYVFl via @digiday

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The leaked New York Times innovation report is one of the key documents of this media age http://t.co/rMcLVwTtk2 via @NiemanLab

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Do you think journalism is heading in the wrong direction? http://t.co/qZs5dLnDKQ

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George Szirtes: what being bilingual means for my writing and identity http://t.co/8iFlyheL2P via @guardian

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Using a foreign language changes moral decisions | UChicago News http://t.co/xfDnC1R7BD via @sharethis

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Trolls, trolls, trolls. A Eulogy for Twitter - Adrienne LaFrance and Robinson Meyer - The Atlantic http://t.co/TkANmDNE4G

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Multilinguals Have Multiple Personalities via @tnr http://t.co/ECENKUBmqK

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should read 8 Reasons Why You Should HIRE a Journalist; many more reasons you shouldn't DATE one! http://t.co/Om1JWFofcg via @ScoopEmpire

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The Upshot, Vox and FiveThirtyEight: data journalism's golden age, or TMI? | James Ball http://t.co/9kuBITbcNA via @guardian

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Knausgaard became the literary star of 2014 by writing about his personal life. Now he hates himself for it. via @tnr http://t.co/wkg73WgVZ0

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Stephen Buckley, dean of faculty at Poynter Institute, to lead youth initiative in Africa http://t.co/DQLmjGKNam via @TB_Times

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"...el desafío mayor para nosotros ha sido la insuficiencia de los recursos convencionales para hacer creíble nuestra vida." RIP Gabo

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“We all wake up at three o’clock in the morning saying ‘How am I gonna get out of here? … Can I start over?’” http://t.co/oYG4xkOwpB

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"No matter what we may be doing at a given moment, we must not forget that it has a bearing upon our everlasting self which is poetry."Basho

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A print newspaper generated by robots: Is this the future of media or just a sideshow? http://t.co/ao7OlNmy89 via @gigaom

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Why aren't more people alarmed by the falling numbers of reporters? http://t.co/jKW64EDFF9 via @PublicI

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“My ambition has been to unite the utmost seriousness of question with the utmost lightness of form.” —Milan Kundera http://t.co/nk6BjonLs3

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"He could be our dog. But he is not our dog. So he barks at us." Is any writer as suited to Twitter as Lydia Davis? http://t.co/fa00LtxTVL

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“We have outsmarted ourselves, like greedy monkeys, and now we are full of dread.” ― Peter Matthiessen, The Snow Leopard. RIP