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Culture, Digested: Neil Gaiman is an Industry Problem
Around twenty years ago, publishing forgot how to sell books.
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Jessa Crispin
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Culture, Digested: You are having a midlife crisis. It's fine.
Miranda July joins the revolutionary divorced lady brigade
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Jessa Crispin
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Culture Digested: Divorce Season
Fair Play, Lyz Lenz, and Maggie Smith go to family court
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Jessa Crispin
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Culture, Digested: The PhD in Creativity
how the artist became the creative and other corrosions of character
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Jessa Crispin
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Culture, Digested: Goodbye to all those things over there
Drake has a sweatshop, Americans as international tastemakers, and capitalism is bad.
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Jessa Crispin
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Culture, Digested: Stop Laughing at Old Movies
audiences behaving badly at the theater, concerts, and everywhere else
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Jessa Crispin
Culture, Digested: Why I Deleted My Instagram Account
a not serious look at social media and the compromised soul
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Jessa Crispin
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Culture, Digested: The Stubborn and the Willful
the Letterboxd four favorites war
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Jessa Crispin
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Culture, Digested: Are Teens Too Woke to Read?
In the New York Times piece about the University of Michigan’s efforts to diversify their campus with a heavy investment in DEI initiatives, Nicholas…
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Jessa Crispin
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Culture, Digested: Elite Anxiety
David Brooks, Adelle Waldman, and William Deresiewicz pay penance for their Ivy League degrees
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Jessa Crispin
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Culture, Digested: Writers Strike and the Audience Lashes Back
As soon as the WGA strike began, a backlash did as well.
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Jessa Crispin
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Culture, Digested: Class Traitors Cruise
social mobility in university, media, the arts, and the cruise essay
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Jessa Crispin
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