Zach Barocas, Diasporist Diarist
Fortunately, blessedly, we have moments of vivid experience when interior and exterior come into a sort of tentative alignment, as if they’re neurons between which a synapse has miraculously fired. Calling these (moments) ‘epiphanies,’ we rejoice in the mere suspicion of transcendence.
— Tim Carpenter, To Photograph Is to Learn How to Die.
The Cranberries’s “Zombie” is the precise balance of awesome and futile outrage paired with utterly ridiculous production.
How Anxiety Became Content | The Atlantic
Something about the five-alarm fire of moral outrage burns efficiently across the prairie of the social web. But cognitive behavioral therapy, for example, encourages patients to avoid catastrophic thinking, to cool the fire of anger, to reconstruct their feelings and thoughts to be more patient with themselves and with others. The share of adults receiving mental-health treatment is surging, but we have built an online ecosystem that thrives on the very principles that counselors implore us to reject.
I have had to learn the simplest things
last. Which made for difficulties.
— Charles Olson
Michael Stipe Is Writing His Next Act. Slowly. | The New York Times
How do you reinvent yourself after being a global superstar? The former R.E.M. frontman is still figuring that out.
How “The Kids of Rutherford County” Sets Investigative Reporting to Music | ProPublica
Experimentation was key in creating the score for our four-part narrative podcast series, produced in collaboration with Serial.
Funny you Should Ask | Anne Carson for The New Yorker
It occurs to me I’ve spent too much of my life staring at someone else’s sentences
in a rebar dawn, measuring my insomnia against their
snap-brim
thoughts.