Hello! Just a quick note: I did a Q&A for Famous Writing Routines on my work as an editor and curator at Longreads, in case anyone’s interested in what I’m up to these days. I’ve contributed to Longreads, one of Automattic’s award-winning publications, since 2014, but shifted focus and nearly 100% of my time toContinue reading “A Recent Interview”
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On Editing, Blogging, Writing, Working
Notes on editing, writing, and working — and a Q&A with writer Richard Gilbert, who recently published “Why I Hate My Dog” on Longreads.
Descent
Early in the morning, as I peaked on the dance floor of the main room, a dancer threw his glow stick in the air, and I watched it rise — in slow motion — and recalled the beginning of 2001: A Space Odyssey. This guy was like a caveman, and his glow stick was the fragmented piece of bone that the man-ape in Stanley Kubrick’s film flung into the sky that spun and transformed into a satellite in orbit.