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a blog by Paul Graham Raven
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palpably anxious authors
Interesting and accidental juxtaposition in these two bits from very different scenes and sources, which nonetheless rhyme strongly: In my most cynical moments, I wonder if the return to literary moralism isn’t an evolutionary tactic of publishing’s extant power structures, substituting real-world issues of employment and portfolio identity representation—which do matter—with equitable representation within individual…
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complaints of a reluctant LARPer
Talking to an old friend about LinkedIn the other day, said friend described it as “business LARP”. The topic came up because, as a person who is easing themselves back into the searching-for-gainful-employment game, I am now obliged to engage with LinkedIn: in Sweden, it’s basically the default platform through which almost all recruitment takes…
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06OCT22 / accessions
Went looking for the new Saga, which has yet to arrive on Swedish shores, but the new Monstress is a fine tide-me-over. A very dark and maximalist series, this, in both its art style and story; Liu’s short prose fiction seems much less densely packed, somehow. But something about this story keeps me coming back;…
Who is Paul Graham Raven?
“… who, with raving lips uttering things mirthless, unbedizened, and unperfumed, reaches over a thousand years with [his] voice, thanks to the god in [him].”