I love essays!
I also collect the Best American Essays Anthology. It is a yearly release with a new guest editor every year. Amazing way to hear so many new voices you may never have heard. Also check out all of the other ābest Americanā collections as well!
Feb 2, 2025
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All things are too small - Becca rothfeld
Kind mirrors ugly ghosts - Claire donato
Essays and fiction - Brad philips
Tonight Iām someone else - Chelsea hodsen
Thereās a series called best American essays - they do one every year itās a good place to read a bunch of different stuff and authors and then find more comprehensive collections of the ones you like most
Aug 7, 2024
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You could probably do Selected Essays of Gore Vidal to start but United States: Essays 1952-1992, The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000, Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got to Be So Hatedā¦ all bangers. You will learn a lot and be delighted, stunned, and awed as you read
Nov 26, 2024
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i love russia: reporting from a lost country by elena kostyuchenko - super interesting though obviously a very depressing look at different aspects of life in modern russia. kostyuchenko is such a brilliant writer (some of the chapters were originally published in or drew on reporting sheād done while writing for the novaya gazeta) and her connection to the people of russia and love for her country despite its flaws is really beautiful.
say nothing: a true story of murder and memory in northern ireland by patrick radden keefe- youāve probably heard of this already, because itās pretty popular, but i thought it was worth the hype! itās basically a historical account of the troubles with a focus on an unsolved 1972 kidnapping believed to be committed by the ira. donāt be fooled by the length, i thought the book was super readable and easy enough to follow despite the sheer scale of the events of the trouble. certain parts really stuck with me, and even though i read it two summers ago, i still think about it frequently!
white negroes: when cornrows were in vogue... and other thoughts on cultural appropriation by lauren michele jackson - this is an essay collection about the appropriation of black culture (duh lol) and itās obviously pretty strongly pop culture focused. (though not completely!) i know thereās a lot of discourse surrounding cultural appropriation but i thought jacksonās takes were very refreshing and even entertaining to read at times. sheās a very witty writer with a really sharp eye! my personal favorite essay was the one about paula deen, though the miley/xtina one was a close second.
Aug 11, 2024
Top Recs from @ugliestbinch
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Why not go through the process of blending those images yourself? Why not use process as an experiment? Why AI? What part are you playing? What makes it yours?
I think AI is impersonal. I think it is unethical when it has relied on the theft of actual peopleās actual physical (and because of the nature of art, often time emotional) labor. I also think it is unnecessary in creating art. I also think the environmental impacts are atrocious. I also think AIās biggest supporters are being maliciously ignorant because itās a fun new toy.
Is it ease? Is it efficiency? People talk about accessibility as if children donāt use crayons and stickers! As if graffiti artists donāt use postal labels as sticker, as if sand mandalas donāt exist, as if cardboard and tape arenāt in over abundance.
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Mar 1, 2025
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Maybe this isnāt so much a fix for staff, but I feel like the reposting of things has gotten a bit lame. I donāt want the āEveryoneā feed to be the same post 20 times with nothing added, especially when the thing being re-recād isnāt even a real reccomendation in the first place. I like this app because it is different than Instagram and Twitter and tumblr and the like. I feel like people are trying to interact similarly to those other apps here. I feel like we are all drifting back into creating the same social media AGAIN.
My vote would be to remove the feature entirely, but I see how it can be used thoughtfully
Mar 3, 2025