What we gonna write. From Married To The Sea.
The massive distinction between “writers” and “people who have an idea for a book”
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Ta-Nehisi Coates in comments to his article on teaching writing at MIT (via Jamison Foser)
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9 Hilariously Distressing Letters From Kids
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Once upon a time a woman never got married, but had many fulfilling relationships, a job that kept her comfortable, an apartment that she got to decorate just for her, and hobbies that stimulated her mind.
The End.
”“It’s really a wonder that I haven’t dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart”
Anne Frank
Anne Frank was born today in 1929. This quote is from her diary, “The Diary of a Young Girl” which was written while her family was in hiding during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. She died in 1945 and her diary was published in 1947 by her father, Otto Frank. You can get a copy of her diary at the library.
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“I feel like I’ve swallowed a cloudy sky.”
Hashtag of the Day: #NSAKidsBooks
On Saturday, Twitter user @Darth asked his followers to submit parody titles of children’s books incorporating the NSA’s domestic surveillance scandal with the hashtag #NSAKidsBooks. After more than 2,800 mentions of the hashtag over the weekend, @Darth used the best submissions as his inspiration for a series of children’s book cover illustrations (shown above).
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Tuesday…
