LitFriends: Our Choices Shape Who Gets Power “Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.” — Thomas Wolfe Something recently surprised me. In all the time I’ve been sharing books through LitFriends, blog posts, and social media, only one person has used my independent bookstore link. One. Most people appear to default to …
LitFriends: What if the World is a Mess Because You’ve Been Silent? “Constantly defining yourself in opposition to what others say about you is not self-knowledge. It’s confusion.” — Ayad Akhtar, Homeland Elegies It is easy to look at the world right now and think: what a mess. The noise is relentless. The problems are …
LitFriends: Refuse to Behave “Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it.” — David Foster Wallace We weigh risks every day in the words we use. If you’re looking for places to publish those words, see the featured calls for submission at the end of this newsletter. I’m feeling that risk myself right now. …