Month: March 2020
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Deciding whether to do academic writing right now
It is always a good exercise to think through why we write, though we pause to reflect on this question relatively rarely. In normal academic times, we might say things like: ◦ I need to finish this paper for my class because I’m trying to get through my first year of grad school ◦ I…
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Survival will always be insufficient but it’s a good place to start
An updated version of this was published in The Arrow. Rereading Emily St. John Mandel’s novel Station Eleven last weekend was strangely reassuring. The book toggles between the onset of a global flu pandemic and the lives of people living twenty years later, and honestly I’m not sure I’d actually recommend reading it right now.…