How do you like them apples?
In October, the apples in New England are some of the best in the world. Alas, the apples in this bowl are nine months old […]
Poet Diane Ackerman on What She Learned While Working at a Suicide Prevention Hotline – The Marginalian
“How are we so optimistic, so careful not to trip and yet do trip, and then get up and say OK?” Maira Kalman pondered in […]
Dostoyevsky on What Makes a Good Person – The Marginalian
We know good people when we encounter them, when they fall upon our lives like a sunbeam, like a song. But we don’t always know […]
Getting critical | Seth’s Blog
I’d heard a lot about critical theory but didn’t really understand what was being talked about. The Frankfurt School of the 1930s wasn’t really a […]
D.H. Lawrence on the Superpower of Vulnerability – The Marginalian
We live in a culture that has warped strength from the measure of our interior tenacity into the magnitude of our forceful self-assertion. We also […]
G.K. Chesterton on How to Live in Wonder – The Marginalian
There is a myth we live with, the myth of finding the meaning of life — as if meaning were an undiscovered law of physics. […]
Media and messages | Seth’s Blog
Rock and roll came from the transistor radio. When Sony launched its cheap portable radio more than sixty years ago, it came with a headphone. […]
James Baldwin’s Advice on Writing – The Marginalian
In 1989, Paris Review founding editor and trailblazing interviewer George Plimpton edited a wonderful collection titled The Writer’s Chapbook: A Compendium of Fact, Opinion, Wit, […]
C.S. Lewis on How to Structure the Days of a Creative Life and Train the Receptive Imagination – The Marginalian
There are, in my experience, two fundaments of the creative life: putting yourself regularly in the path of wonder and getting out of your own […]
Two ways to use lock-in/loyalty
Organizations invest to create an audience that sticks with them, either because they have no choice or because of an emotional connection. When this occurs, […]
