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David McDannald
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Prose in Oxford American, American Scholar, Glimmer Train, Sierra | Co-wrote The Last Great Ape | Cultural Nomad | Peanut-Butter Enthusiast | Recently migrated from the Navajo Nation to the woods of Western Mass

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I updated my nonfiction rankings for magazines and journals. Hope you find it to be a useful tool.

www.davidmcdannald.com/the-rankings
Nonfiction Rankings — David McDannald
A ranking of the best magazines and journals publishing nonfiction and a tool for determining where to submit your nonfiction, utilizing data from Best American Essays, Pushcart Prizes, and National...
www.davidmcdannald.com
The need for zoos to stock exhibits is often in conflict with conservation, as not all zoo animals are bred in captivity.
November 29, 2024 at 7:45 PM
So maybe targeting food dye is a red herring?
November 29, 2024 at 3:12 PM
I’m a Luddite at heart, but it is revolutionary to be able to argue with AI in Spanish (to practice Spanish) about whether Fredric Jameson romanticizes the art of the past by denigrating the art of the present as commercial.
November 29, 2024 at 2:59 PM
Why did the grand watchmaker withhold from humans the horse’s ability to drink and breathe simultaneously??
November 29, 2024 at 2:40 PM
BORDERline behavior of Vanity Fair writer casting himself into the role of Cormac McCarthy (prose, guns, horses) down to the “thousands of hours” he spent with his “muse” in 9 months, which has only 6,480 hours.
November 23, 2024 at 6:58 PM
Western-hero (cliched) domains of excellence:

1. guns, horses, sexuality

2. fighting, tolerance, roping

3. Spanish, engines, fiddle

The article about Cormac & Britt positions her at the first level. I'm half-surprised Barney didn't claim she can shoot a smiley face in a tin of Copenhagen.
November 23, 2024 at 4:46 PM
Perhaps not surprising that Cormac McCarthy's reclusiveness was not all about the virtue and marketing of the enigma but a strategic motivation of the legal.
November 23, 2024 at 4:03 PM
Romanticism is just a longing for the non-anthropomorphic.
November 13, 2024 at 7:35 PM
Go ahead and tell me our 4yo didn't finger paint a diver in a submersible suit! (And someone please kill off AI art.)
February 24, 2024 at 8:26 PM
February 16, 2024 at 2:52 PM
I updated my nonfiction rankings for magazines and journals. Hope you find it to be a useful tool.

www.davidmcdannald.com/the-rankings
Nonfiction Rankings — David McDannald
A ranking of the best magazines and journals publishing nonfiction and a tool for determining where to submit your nonfiction, utilizing data from Best American Essays, Pushcart Prizes, and National...
www.davidmcdannald.com
February 14, 2024 at 2:53 AM
…one is a writer as Louis XIV was king, even on the commode.

Roland Barthes
September 26, 2023 at 3:40 PM
We are in this techno-scientific world like Gulliver: sometimes too big, sometimes too small, never at the right scale. – Lyotard
September 22, 2023 at 2:26 PM
"A friend and I were arguing about Freud and I said, 'My problem with Freud is he suffers the problem of misplaced concreteness. He thinks the mind is in your head.' My friend said, 'Where do you think Mind is if it’s not in your head?' And I said, 'Here. Between us.'" - JM Bernstein
September 19, 2023 at 10:44 PM
I guess it's a parental right of passage to have the Frozen soundtrack stuck in your head.
September 19, 2023 at 4:11 PM
Moving to Massachusetts has filled a library of small miracles, this one a 2,000-pager left last week by someone at our town transfer station (the dump).
September 17, 2023 at 8:07 PM
“If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.”
September 17, 2023 at 6:27 PM
I’m thrilled to have an essay up at @pinchjournal.bsky.social. It’s an exploration of war and identity that details an attempt to understand my grandfather, who carried an impenetrable silence (save for the occasional outrageous line).
www.pinchjournal.com/blog-posts/a...
September 17, 2023 at 3:40 PM