People can get the anger of the current moment from anywhere. See what else you have to give.
I fight the idea that the only sensible response to a world that seems to be driving itself mad is to hide under one's desk with one's head in the wastebasket.
The world awaited is not yet the world attained, but the fighting spirit burns on.
"If I stop to look at reality, I think I’ll be struck down, and I don’t want to be." -- Pedro Almodóvar
I've found I do my best work when I'm not self-consciously trying to comment on my moment in time.
My own little fight against modern-day information overload: don't blog too much about it.
Title tells it.
The world awaited is not yet the world attained, but we took a step in the right direction today.
Just a few things as the First Tuesday In November approaches.
On the notion that if our moment in time were a story, nobody would believe a word of it.
If I didn't feel before like I was living in a science fiction novel, this year sure clinched that feeling. But not for the reasons you might think.
And once we do, what do we take away from it all?
Why some people respond to reports of deaths in numbers with minimizing tactics.
In a conversation with a friend, about the way our crazy moment in time is shaping our creative decisions, I kept coming back to a phrase I've said to myself before: "Let's not try to understand all this too quickly."
And how we might be able to write about it.
"Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief." Easier said than done.
If I could sum up the problem of modern politics in only a few words, it would be this: the asymmetry of the motivations of the participants.
Welcome back to third grade.
On Sir Popper's beautiful mind as an antidote for this terrible moment.
I've long been wary of using fiction as a system of polemic, not because I don't care about the world we live in but because such things typically make for bad fiction
The point isn't to run away from what's around you, but to see something new despite it.
"If infinity is too big for you, live in the day."
When all this madness first really lit up, I made a promise to myself: I wasn't going to post anything here that was simply an echo of anything you could find anywhere else.
Since many of you are stuck indoors right now and going a little stir crazy, I have some nonfiction reading suggestions that shed light on our moment from different directions.
Like most of you, I'm "sheltering in place" -- which is actually not all that different from what I already do. The difference is that now I don't have a choice.