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On stuttering.
During his first year of graduate school at Harvard, a friend of mine was trying to pick a research advisor. This is a pretty big deal — barring disaster, whoever you choose will have a great deal of control over your life for the next five to eight years. My friend found someone who seemed…
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On Marlon James’s “A Brief History of Seven Killings.”
James created a striking depiction of some of the brutal homophobic lives eddying near Bob Marley.
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On reading Playboy from the 1970s.
Take away the rampant chauvinism and Playboys from the sixties and seventies are actually pretty good magazines.
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On computing and word magic.
Both computers and golems are given life by the generative power of words.
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On the naming of rabbits.
Our house was chaotic … and then we inherited Uncle Max and Kichirou.
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On Eka Kurniawan’s ‘Beauty Is a Wound,’ mythology, and misogyny.
Kurniawan’s interests mirror my own — why wouldn’t I love his book?
Annie Tucker, Beauty is a Wound, David Foster Wallace, Eka Kurniawan, feminism, feminist, Flo the Progressive Insurance girl, Franzen, geek, geek culture, girl, Heartbreak, Kurniawan, Mahabharata, Mark Leyner, misogyny, mythology, neg, Neil Strauss, Purity, repetition, Scott Aaronson, sexual assault, The Game, The Pale King, The Sugar Frosted Nutsack, Translation
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On play (and playgrounds).
N’s best friend’s father often goes by the name “Kingkong” for his film work — he’s helped make many movies in Bangkok. I assume he was half kidding when he told me, “Nobody on the crew could pronounce an exotic name like ‘Greg.’ ” I think “Kingkong” is a charming name for an American filmmaker to use in…
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On non-violence (part 2): empowering kids to act for equality.
Even second-graders can make consumer choices that contribute less toward climate destabilization.
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Links to my writing elsewhere: Line of Sight
This piece was published at Toasted Cheese. I was drawn to this journal by virtue of its being edited by a team of female writers — although 2% of my chromosomes are diminutive, curtailed fragments, I’m a feminist and like to stand with my people. Plus, I really enjoyed Emily Pifer’s piece “A Field Guide…
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On Gerry Alanguilan’s “ELMER,” his author bio, and animal cognition.
In ELMER by Gary Alanguilan, chickens suddenly gain intelligence and have to fight against murder, oppression, and prejudice.
abortion rights, Andy Hartzell, animal cognition, chicken, David Duchovny, ELMER, empathy, ethics, evolution, Fox Bunny Funny, Frans de Waal, Gerry Alanguilan, graphic novel, Holy Cow, Homo naledi, live your ethics, Peter Singer, speciest, suffering, teleological misconception, teleology, vegan, vegetarian
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