I worry that these last four years have only been an island, a little life raft, from which we could see the depths of devastation around the world but not be drowned, not yet.
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I had no expectations, but on the day of the total eclipse, something shifted for me, creatively speaking.
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The narrator’s singular objective—to learn—gives each sentence a weighted urgency I feel in my body as I read; her interior life is as active and alive as her physical life has been limited and stilted.
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I call myself middle-aged now, although my tween daughter helpfully informed me that, technically, I am “way past middle-aged,” since life expectancy for women in the U.S. is 79, and I’ll be turning 47 soon.
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Politicians like Stefanik and the billionaires who love to exploit their vapidness will always be fighting to go backwards. Which is why Crip Camp is essential viewing now, in 2024, and forever after.
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The problem is not writer’s block; it feels more like writer’s mud.
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