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?
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Quoted:As a natural-born child of the meritocracy, I'd been amassing momentum my whole life, entering spelling bees, vying for forensics medals, running my mouth in mock United Nations meetings and model state governments and student congresses, and I knew only one direction: forward, onward. I lived for prizes, praise, distinctions, and I gave no thought to any goal higher or broader than my next report card. Learning was secondary; promotion was primary. No one had ever told me what the point was, except to keep on accumulating points, and this struck me as sufficient. What else was there?
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