Artist as office drone, you're all fired, sometimes you do need to hustle
10 things worth sharing this week
ICYMI earlier this week: When do writers peak? (Or Am I A Worse Writer Than I Was 10 Years Ago?)
Adding mid-week essays to the mix!
“Portrait of the Artist as an Office Drone” at The New Yorker
This is overview of office-drone-memoirs (I actually love those!)
“Taken in aggregate, office memoirs gesture at a larger American story about what it takes to have a financially stable creative life in the twenty-first century, without compromising one’s class position.”
Similarly, “Our Company Is Doing So Well That You’re All Fired” at McSweeney’s.
If everyone is an influencer and everyone knows themselves “well” what happens when we need people to know other things? At the Hedgehog Review.
“What if the logic of the social media world continues to envelop our discourse, so that all issues, not merely the marketplace choices of consumers, are being addressed by people who are influencers, rather than authorities?”
Why is March such a good month for new book releases? At The Literary Hub.
Sometimes you do need to hustle by Carl Pullein.
“People are naturally lazy. It’s how we survive. Our bodies are designed to conserve energy in case of famine or when some predator or danger threatens us. Most of those dangers no longer exist, yet we are still hard-wired to conserve energy. It’s why so many of us procrastinate and put off until tomorrow what could be done today until tomorrow.”
How do you get past the iron law of writing? By me at Medium.
Book Notes
I’m diving further into “Great Expectations” by Dickens, and it’s starting to gel for me. It takes a minute. So many orphans in his writing.
“Die with Zero” has me rethinking how I save my money
Last Thing
“I hate when I lose things at work, like pens, papers, sanity and dreams.” — Anonymous
Keep going-
Josh Spilker