Joshua Wolf Shenk @joshuawolfshenk

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Black Mountain Institute @BlackMtnInst

5 years ago

This conversation between Stephen Bates and Farai Chideya will be starting soon! ✨You still have time to RSVP: eventbrite.com/e/136346310485

Black Mountain Institute @BlackMtnInst

5 years ago

This conversation between Stephen Bates and Farai Chideya will be starting soon! ✨You still have time to RSVP: eventbrite.com/e/136346310485

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Black Mountain Institute @BlackMtnInst

5 years ago

The day has come! Stephen Bates and Farai Chideya will be in conversation TODAY at 5pm PT. 💫 RSVP if you haven’t already: eventbrite.com/e/136346310485

Black Mountain Institute @BlackMtnInst

5 years ago

The day has come! Stephen Bates and Farai Chideya will be in conversation TODAY at 5pm PT. 💫 RSVP if you haven’t already: eventbrite.com/e/136346310485

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The Believer @believermag

5 years ago

"I feel this sense of loss when I don’t record. You know, when you think of a really good idea and then you forget the idea and it never comes back to you? It’s that feeling, even though you saw it and you experienced it." —An interview with John Wilson: believermag.com/logger/how-to-…

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The Believer @believermag

5 years ago

"I’m not embarrassed to admit I’d had some romantic notions about prison. I’d always imagined an isolated cell where I’d spend my days alone with my books. But in the group cellblock, I was not alone at all." —Ahmed Naji (@AhmedNajiTW): believermag.com/rotten-evidenc…

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R. O. Kwon 권오경 @rokwon

5 years ago

there is almost no one I distrust more than those so juvenile as to mistake vulnerability for weakness

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erika meitner @rikam99

5 years ago

Two-ish years ago I got a call from @jerichobrown when we were both laid up with the flu & he told me he wanted this poem for @believermag & he took time to help me cut it down so it could be its best self & it’s maybe the hardest poem I’ve ever written 🖤 believermag.com/my-list-of-tru…

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Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany

5 years ago

If you read one thing today, let it be this remarkably-brilliant first-hand account by my friend Egyptian writer and journalist @AhmedNajiTW, "Reading and Writing in an Egyptian Prison" believermag.com/rotten-evidenc… via @believermag

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The Believer @believermag

5 years ago

🦜 📚 Our February/March issue is now online! It's a stacked issue featuring @AhmedNajiTW, @laurenoyler, @SirJoshBennett, @diddioz, @sashavono, @browne_petra, @rikam99, @MarkCWunderlich, and so much more. Read it here: believermag.com/product/februa…

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Black Mountain Institute @BlackMtnInst

5 years ago

In 2016, Ahmed Naji (@AhmedNajiTW) became the first author in modern Egypt to be sentenced to prison for a work of literature. In an essay for @believermag Naji considers, is the written word worth so huge a sacrifice? believermag.com/rotten-evidence

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Jo @JoJoFromJerz

5 years ago

A couple who love and even really like one another. Grand babies. Nieces. Dogs. Snowmen. Even in the midst of crisis, while we are surrounded by so much darkness, the White House feels warm again. It feels genuine, and I love it.

Sara Cook @saraecook

5 years ago

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The Believer @believermag

5 years ago

"Writing is being still enough to listen to what is flowing through you, and directing is being still enough to see and to be a part of the alchemy that is happening in front of you." —An interview with Kasi Lemmons: believermag.com/an-interview-w…

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Black Mountain Institute @BlackMtnInst

5 years ago

"There are ways of telling stories that can ease, without lying, the pain that you justifiably feel that someone you’re close to will experience," says Margo Jefferson in the latest episode of Thresholds, hosted by BMI Shearing Fellow @jordan_kisner. lithub.com/margo-jefferso…

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Alex Marzano-Lesnevich @alexmlwrites

5 years ago

Someday it will be revealed that Scrivener is actually a long-game plan by the poets, against linearity.

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Amanda Fortini @amandafortini

5 years ago

This is an unbelievably sad and haunting story about kids in Las Vegas, a city that is very close to my heart. In the Clark County school district, the nation's 5th largest, there have been 18 student suicides over nine months of closure. nytimes.com/2021/01/24/us/…

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Black Mountain Institute @BlackMtnInst

5 years ago

This spring, join us for a series of workshops, new audio projects, and intimate conversations!📚🌵 You'll hear from artists and writers like John Manuel Arias, Stephen Bates, Chen Chen, Farai Chideya, Raven Leilani, Diana Khoi Nguyen, & many more! RSVP: blackmountaininstitute.org/live-experienc…

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Black Mountain Institute @BlackMtnInst

5 years ago

Black Mountain Radio returns this spring! 📻🏜️ We'll be telling stories of Las Vegas and beyond focused on themes like freedom, light, simulation, desert nature, risk. ✨If you are interested in radio, pitch us a story! We want to hear your voices: blackmountaininstitute.submittable.com/submit/182365/…

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Sara Ortiz @chikitlinski

5 years ago

A must-read

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The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln

5 years ago

Mood.

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Joshua Wolf Shenk @joshuawolfshenk

5 years ago

Sorry to say, but cognitive dissonance theory suggests they will only be momentarily dissuaded—then come back with an even fiercer attachment to the idea & to spreading it.

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5 years ago

Sorry to say, but cognitive dissonance theory suggests they will only be momentarily dissuaded—then come back with an even fiercer attachment to the idea & to spreading it.