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with links to over 750 (!) more classic reads
For the last 2 years The Electric Tyepwriter has been searching the internet to bring you the best journalism, essays and narrative nonfiction. Now we’ve put togehter a collection of 150 favourites, plus links to over 750 more amazing reads.
We are not built for this. We are not designed, at our core, to be able to absorb, at a glance and a click, a tweet and a ruthless video feed, all the ills and horrors of the world, all at once, all manner of chaos and destruction in a nonstop bloody flood over which we are powerless to influence and impotent to stop.
The Boston bombings have forced us, once again, to ask: Are we in an age of miracles or misery? Unhindered magic or cruel dystopia? Is it both? How can it possibly be both? This tech-enabled onslaught of violence and pain the likes of which our ancestors, even as recently as 50 years ago, never had to deal with and could not possibly imagine? It is not within our emotional capacity. Not without serious scarring, anyway.
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The answer is almost always the same, but increasingly lost in the modern bedlam of technology: In times of violent, faraway tragedy, you do the only thing possible: You gather in, hold tight, and take care of those close to you. As feeble as it sounds, as meek as you feel, this is the only way. This is also the best way. To help. To be a part. To avoid shutting down, hardening, adding more suspicion and mistrust to the world.
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The smart one
gorgeous
Hey. It's me this time.
I know!
Sherwin Tjia, The World is a Heartbreaker
Day 12, and Days 13-17 below
Jennica Harper, What It Feels Like For a Girl
Day 13
Marita Daschel, Emma Hale Smith
(with thanks to Jennica Harper)
Day 14
e.e. Cummings, [i carry your heart with me(i carry it in]
(with thanks to Neva Macleod)
Day 15
P.K. Page, Cross
Day 16
Maude Smith Gangnon, Une Tonne D’Air
Day 17
Billy Collins, Marginalia
Day 11, National Poetry Month posts I am so behind on it’s not funny. Aiming for the full balance by midnight. Possibly squeezed into a list. Yes.
“Great works and great folly may be indistinguishable from the outset.” Wisdom from NASA’s Adam Steltzner, lead engineer at the Mars Science Laboratory and mastermind of the Curiosity rover landing system, at The New Yorker’s Big Story event.
Or, as Bertrand Russell famously put it, “Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”
“It was a curious period of publication… the papers that we published took two years.” - Wally Gilbert
Wally Gilbert, molecular biology pioneer, biotech entrepreneur, Harvard professor and 1980 Nobel laureate in Chemistry, discusses the state of genetic research.
Russell Brand telling Westboro Baptist what’s up.they are the absolute worst (x)
watching this interview and laughing at how russel brand never gets offended.
[x]
A sloth grooms a cat, slowly but methodically. The cat lies there with a distinct look of: “Oh God, I’m in hell…no, don’t stop.”
