"One time a venomous snake got into the lazy river. I coaxed the snake out of the water with a soft pretzel and everyone called me a genius."
We're loving @johnjodzio's funny but heartwarming I'M ALIVE BUT I'M IN ASHEVILLE from our MAY ISSUE: https://t.co/9uQuH5z22L
Sylvia Chan's "Never Stay Still," out now in HFR Issue 76, is a beautifully vulnerable and layered essay about the challenges of centering your own experience in a family narrative, and I was delighted to ask her a few questions about the writing process for the HFR blog:
New on the blog: Chloe Jensen @cljensen_ interviews Sylvia Chan, author of "We Remain Traditional" and an essay in our latest issue
https://t.co/QikLQ3s2Nx
a number of strangers and high school acquaintances have emailed me to say "I will think about your butt every day now," which is of course all I could've asked for in writing this essay https://t.co/ojSef0cFFv
@SureAsMel on @lithub: “The books that stick with me … are books with blank spaces begging to be filled in. A story that refuses to hand us all the answers demands we do some interpretative work of our own.” https://t.co/Ok1ussiDmn
When I found out how much it costs to make a penny (3.07 cents), I lost my mind. Spent months investigating it. @NYTMag told me I could write 7,000 words on this. I countered with a 19,000 word draft. We compromised & published 7,000 words. Here they are: https://t.co/VUaJJ07Ts0
"what perishes is not you, but the ridiculous idea that any of this would conform to your napkin-sketch plans of the future."
Playing in the ruins by @sashachapin https://t.co/x16rl2nTrp
“Ideology is a butcher of reality, severing the muscle from bone, discarding the unsightly and inedible and delivering neatly wrapped, digestible steaks to its consumers.”
@PhilKlay on art and activism and the difference between them:
https://t.co/7mrq64d0l0
During the pandemic, trust broke down, violent crime rose, and 1 in 20 American adults decided to buy a gun for the 1st time.
I wrote about who they were, and why they decided to arm themselves, for @voxdotcom
https://t.co/3ZkVRpgsPR