Steph
@msphilp.bsky.social
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"...technology has jaded people to marvels, making them harder to wow."
@economist.com
www.economist.com/interactive/...
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How magicians stay relevant in the age of AI
As TikTok dulls the world’s sense of wonder, conjurors are adapting
https://www.economist.com/interactive/christmas-specials/2025/12/18/how-magicians-stay-relevant-in-the-age-of-ai
27 days ago
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Eric Puchner in The Sewanee Review ➡️
thesewaneereview.com/articles/ast...
5 months ago
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“I yearn for the blueprint, but there is no blueprint. If there were a blueprint, an MFA would be a law degree.” Loved Sidik Fofana’s craft essay “Stumbling Along” in The Sewanee Review ➡️
thesewaneereview.com/articles/stu...
6 months ago
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“But what comes after finality? Is anything capable of following it?” — Yiyun Li in the
@newyorker.com
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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“Any Human Heart,” by Yiyun Li
And here sat Maureen, who had no one else to send flowers to as sweet revenge. And here sat Lilian, who had thought that little in life could surprise her anymore.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/06/23/any-human-heart-fiction-yiyun-li
6 months ago
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Notes on Bed Rest
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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Notes on Bed Rest
I spent months limiting my movement, to protect a high-risk pregnancy. How did it change me?
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/notes-on-bed-rest
6 months ago
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“If you want to lift a heavy barbell, you can either bench press it or use a forklift. But if you want to build physical strength, you must lift the barbell yourself. Your brain is no different.” Loved this in
@thetransmitter.bsky.social
www.thetransmitter.org/from-bench-t...
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Teaching students how to use AI responsibly
Effectively teaching students how to employ AI in their writing assignments requires clear guidelines—and detailed, case-specific examples.
https://www.thetransmitter.org/from-bench-to-bot/many-students-want-to-learn-to-use-artificial-intelligence-responsibly-but-their-professors-are-struggling-to-meet-that-need/?utm_source=The%20Transmitter%20newsletters&utm_campaign=241306773c-MONTHLY%20202506&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-f8e49bcda4-448869410
7 months ago
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Shaming myself by posting old essays on substack
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Guitar Tooth
The thought of her disapproval frightens me because it will confirm a newly acquired fear that maybe I have bad taste, that maybe I have nothing interesting to say at all.
https://batcave.substack.com/p/guitar-tooth
8 months ago
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“Sometimes it feels as though I pay my therapist so that I can ask her What does that even mean? over and over again.” Reading excerpted
@zoewhittall.bsky.social
in Brick.
brickmag.com/product/bric...
11 months ago
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Kathleen Keenan’s Solstice in
@thenewquarterly.bsky.social
is exactly what I needed on this rainy day. “You think that’s just how it works, life providing you with abundance, but it isn’t. Oh, it isn’t at all.”
tnq.ca/story/solsti...
11 months ago
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“How much, if at all, can an image be manipulated and still be considered documentation?”
add a skeleton here at some point
11 months ago
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“Her devoted readers seemed to blithely accept that her stories, with their grisly leitmotifs, were the product of a saintly lady who was making it all up, out of empathy.”
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Alice Munro’s Passive Voice
The celebrated writer’s partner sexually abused her daughter Andrea. The abuse transformed Munro’s fiction, but she left it to Andrea to confront the true story.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/12/30/alice-munros-passive-voice
about 1 year ago
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reposted by
Steph
Irish Literary Times
about 1 year ago
Sally Rooney: When are we going to have the courage to stop the climate crisis?
www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
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Sally Rooney: When are we going to have the courage to stop the climate crisis?
Capitalism is driving the destruction of our planet. We have to think outside – and against – the framework of our current political system
https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/people/2024/11/23/sally-rooney-when-are-we-going-to-have-the-courage-to-stop-the-climate-crisis/
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