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Saturday, December 27, 2014

Sea Change

I wish to goodness my life were not always a circle. I wish I were not always resting beneath the umbrella of my own personality.
-John P. Marquand, The Late George Apley

 'Tis the season when Aussies love to go on holidays, wind down and dream of a better life. One without a crippling city mortgage, where work doesn't equal stress, with plenty of time for afternoon surfs and relaxing with family and friends. Ahhhhh, the serenity Sea change

“Sea change,” “drop in the bucket,” “give a wide berth” weren’t always clichés. They entered the vocabulary as clever novelties  Sea Change


I can’t teach someone to write,” says John Casey, “but I can sometimes teach someone to rewrite.” What he can teach them is craft... The invisible art 



The writing of history has its own history, which was indelibly shaped by the ambitious and flawed New Left historians His Stories

Never date a writer


Interview with Piketty, more than just the usual, recommended, he also needs some PR training. - See more at: http://marginalrevolution.com/#sthash.E2fE8afq.dpuf
Interview with Piketty, more than just the usual, recommended, he also needs some PR training. - See more at: http://marginalrevolution.com/#sthash.E2fE8afq.dpuf

M.F.A.s: An Increasingly Popular, Increasingly Bad Financial Decision

Like many graduate degrees, a Master of Fine Arts carries rising costs and brings limited job prospects So why are more Americans pursuing one? M.F.A.s: Bad investments

When to quit your journalism job PressThink

How One Indigenous Woman Took On a Multinational Mining Corporation… And Won Common Dreams 


INK BOTTLE“I have always wanted to be somebody’s best friend, but never succeeded. I have no friends, only acquaintances: You have no idea how curious it is to live one’s whole life like a cat: or have you?”
~ T.H. White, letter to L.J. Potts (courtesy of Levi Stahl)