As Raymond Williams observed, “We come to tragedy by many roads.”

Seconding this as a Mariners convert from Cubs fandom -- it was obviously the curse-breaking that cursed the nation, not the Cubs winning. Only the Cubs losing in the WS -- preferably to the Mariners -- could undo it. Curse lifted/restored!

(Nods sagely) The Three vs. The Many

In a nutshell the modern actor is someone trying to ditch bad forms of “mechanicity” (basically, that of the clockwork automaton) in favor not of “organic” “human” expression but in pursuit of a different, refined “mechanicity” (that of cybernetic, “responsive” machines). Welcome to my TED talk…

I don’t call it triage, but I absolutely sequence edits in stages based on how important/transformative they are. Working in several “passes” allows me to focus on the revisions I’m doing, and not get bogged down in changing everything simultaneously. I picked this up from a fiction writer.

First-year creative writer discovers enjambment while interning at local flour company

Sounds like your next season……..

From an essay just published

“Project Gatsby” — incredible.

I should clarify: I wrote what I did between undergrad and grad -- or maybe into my first year in graduate school. In any case, it was Yale English undergrad alums who wrote a lot of No Fear Shakespeare.

I’ve been trying to pitch this as the “private humanities”

Lol, but actually...

No Fear Shakespeare was definitely Yale-adjacent. I and my nerdy friends wrote a bunch of uncredited stuff for them.

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