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I'm Looking for More Ghostwriting Work
Hey everyone - lacking a better way to go about doing this, I’m putting it out into the universe that I have some experience as a ghostwriter and would…
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Review: Chasing the Intact Mind, by Amy Lutz
a brilliant, tragic book
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The Stations of the Meritocrat Cross
I thought that this Atlantic piece by a current Yale undergraduate (likely paywalled, but I dunno) was pretty good. While it’s a little overwritten, the…
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Aging White Men, Like Everyone, Are Aware of the Discursive Reality in Which They Live
every 40-year-old white dad I know won't shut the fuck up about Kendrick Lamar
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Editors, I Love You, But Nobody is Pitching the Way That You Say They Should
Inside baseball today. Sorry. I’d like to take a moment and say that maybe the most commonly expressed rule for pitching as a freelance writer, that you…
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"Was the Past Better Than Now?" is, Unsurprisingly, Not a Coherent Question
sometimes, I suspect that human existence is multivariate
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Call for Subscriber Writing, Plus the State of Things Here
PLEASE read the
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No Soft Landings
Hello folks, today is the big day - publication day for my second book. The Boston Globe has published a meaty excerpt, just out, that I think serves as…
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The Washington Post's Review of My New Book Contains a Direct Factual Error
The Washington Post’s review of How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement is largely negative, which is fine - that’s the biz! But it contains a claim…
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There Are No Vibe Shifts, Just Endless Change
Somewhere or another I said that I sold my new book in May of 2022, but could not have sold it in May of 2021. Not to a major publishing house and not…
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August 2023
Why Government Intervention in Healthcare is Necessary (and Inevitable)
I’m running out of chances to nudge you before publication, so let me say again, please preorder my book (out in less than a week!) if you haven’t…
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No One is Kenough
yes I'm doing Barbie discourse three weeks too late
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