eric | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 02 2008 | Colson Whitehead, writing, essay
Colson Whitehead's short essay about what it's liek to be a writer in Brooklyn.
Quoted: Google “brooklyn writer” and you’ll get, Did you mean: the future of literature as we know it?
- eric | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 30 2007 | toread, towrite, Walter Benjamin, essay
Quoted: Full text of Benjamin's epoch-making work
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