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On A Conversation With a Single Mom Living on $40,000 a Year
This is such a good piece. I would say more but I am busy writing a grant to explore the neurological basis for the comment-section evolution of normal nice people into Clarissa Explains It All
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On Billboard Singles As Indicator of Changing Economic Circumstances, Cultural Priorities
@jfruh AGREED
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On Billboard Singles As Indicator of Changing Economic Circumstances, Cultural Priorities
@questingbeast :) can't stop won't stop listening to music from 2003
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On Billboard Singles As Indicator of Changing Economic Circumstances, Cultural Priorities
I felt weird about writing out the n-word but in my defense some of my best friends are Ludacris
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On How We Should Think About MFA Programs
@replytodread This is... intense
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On Out of Town Guests Mean BLANK For Your Budget (What Is, 'What Budget')
Logan pls pls pls watch some Shark Tank during upcoming austerity measures so we can talk about it
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On How We Should Think About MFA Programs
@dudeascending As I said earlier: there is no qualitative substance to the comparison, didn't mean for there to be any, just was writing while sleepy in the wee hours and reached for the first referential income level that came to mind
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On How We Should Think About MFA Programs
@stuffisthings Despite the fact that I wrote this piece I would LOVE a blanket embargo on the phrase "The thing about the MFA" ever being uttered again. CHEERS TO THAT, AMIGO
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On How We Should Think About MFA Programs
@dudeascending A purely quantitative, 2:30 AM comparison - invalid in any qualitative way and not meant to make such links. We live cushy lives here and admit it openly, daily. And yeah, a grad fellowship isn't really part of the writer's marketplace - the whole point is that you don't have to participate in the marketplace, that you are able to write for free - but Reiner's comparisons and treatment of the subject in the Atlantic piece seemed to make it so, and his attitude of explicit, openly cynical jealousy towards a $26,000 paycheck is a sad reminder of the financial reality of the writing life, etc And thank you for the congrats, they are undeserved, this is a great program and I'm SUPER LUCKY to have squeezed my way in
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On Best News You'll Hear All Day
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