Seconding this as a Mariners convert from Cubs fandom -- it was obviously the curse-breaking that cursed the nation, not the Cubs winning. Only the Cubs losing in the WS -- preferably to the Mariners -- could undo it. Curse lifted/restored!

(Nods sagely) The Three vs. The Many

In a nutshell the modern actor is someone trying to ditch bad forms of “mechanicity” (basically, that of the clockwork automaton) in favor not of “organic” “human” expression but in pursuit of a different, refined “mechanicity” (that of cybernetic, “responsive” machines). Welcome to my TED talk…

I don’t call it triage, but I absolutely sequence edits in stages based on how important/transformative they are. Working in several “passes” allows me to focus on the revisions I’m doing, and not get bogged down in changing everything simultaneously. I picked this up from a fiction writer.

First-year creative writer discovers enjambment while interning at local flour company

Sounds like your next season……..

From an essay just published

“Project Gatsby” — incredible.

I should clarify: I wrote what I did between undergrad and grad -- or maybe into my first year in graduate school. In any case, it was Yale English undergrad alums who wrote a lot of No Fear Shakespeare.

I’ve been trying to pitch this as the “private humanities”

Lol, but actually...

No Fear Shakespeare was definitely Yale-adjacent. I and my nerdy friends wrote a bunch of uncredited stuff for them.

NOTE: This year, we are accepting proposals for work in any format that fits your career-stage or the state of your research in this area.

Turning a term paper into your first article? Submit!
Polishing your book proposal? Submit!
Finishing the introduction to your book? Submit!
Etc.

If nothing else, this episode may finally help the public unlearn their wrong beliefs.

The humanities, apart from their obvious value to society, are also cheap and profitable to sustain.

STEM is expensive and unprofitable. That’s why the govt funds it in the first place.