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Is writing for the rich? – THE WEEK

Yes.

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Lois Draegin, 55, lost a six-figure editing job. She now works unpaid for a start-up website, trading her knowledge for new online skills.

Lois Draegin, 55, lost a six-figure editing job. She now works unpaid for a start-up website, trading her knowledge for new online skills.
It’s Web

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Is there another album in the canon so haunted by the specter of maturity, so obsessed with a return to the lost springs of creation?

Is there another album in the canon so haunted by the specter of maturity, so obsessed with a return to the lost springs of creation?…

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WHEN the documentary filmmaker Astra Taylor speaks of a cinema of ideas, she means it more literally than most.

WHEN the documentary filmmaker Astra Taylor speaks of a cinema of ideas, she means it more literally than most.
Cornel West and Other Theoreticians in

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I hope that the directors and producers who aspire to some more-elevated renown will do the culturally appropriate thing: put down that Penguin Classic and pick up a movie.

I hope that the directors and producers who aspire to some more-elevated renown will do the culturally appropriate thing: put down that Penguin Classic and …

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"Twitter will never be the New Yorker or even the AP, but…"

“Twitter will never be the New Yorker or even the AP, but…”
Los Angeles Times
“It’s another window into a world that I find I’m …

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