New in The Atlantic this morning: an extraordinary cover story by @rosehorowitch.
If you’re generally only reading tweets, emails, texts, and machine-generated sentences, you should really, really read this story (and after that, a novel!):
https://t.co/izCxIr0MW2
Ray Bradbury, who never attended college, called himself “completely library-educated.” After high school he spent ten years reading in the library hoping to acquire the knowledge he needed to become a novelist. “I discovered,” he later wrote, “the library is the real school.”
disgusted by the silence of environmental orgs on the genocide in gaza. the bombing, nuke threats, white phosphorous, all ecocide. the settler-colonialist project has been one of destroying olive trees + native ecosystems in the name of ‘greening,’ outlawing land uses, now oil.
performatively reading joan didion in a coffee shop (for the female gaze) but also scowling and decrying her as a reaganite reactionary (also for the female gaze but in a more complicated way)