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2. "I could not help but be reminded of my experience as a graduate student dealing with an overbearing editor of a journal article, who mangled my ideas through the editing process. I became distant from my own ideas, no longer fully owning them — and it damaged my own confidence and thinking for a good while after."]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>jnchapel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Anne Wentworth's husband, William, was a 'scourge and lash' to her. He destroyed her 'mind and body'; she lay her 'body as the ground, and as the street for him to go over.' In 1671 she was forty years old and 'consumed to skin and bone' by him, 'unlike a woman.' She started to write. This is how she explained her decision to begin her book: 'It was necessary to the peace of my soul, to absent myself from my earthly husband.' Like so many female authors before and after her, she made a new world in her 'book of experience.' When William found out that she'd written it, he was furious, and so were his friends from their dissenting congregation. He brought men to their home to 'fright, and amaze, and astonish' Anne; they tried 'to make a rape of [my] soul,' as she described it. She suffered a miscarriage. Still she wrote. And then William stole the manuscript that Anne had been writing — a book dedicated to her daughter. Six years of writing were gone."]]></description>
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    <title>A most particular life</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-07T11:29:35+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/03/26/a-most-particular-life-felix-platter/</link>
    <dc:creator>jnchapel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In addition to chapters on subjects such as “My Nativity,” “Stature and Appearance,” and “My Manner of Walking and Thinking,” there are chapters titled “Concerning My Enemies and Rivals,” “Calumny, Defamations, and Treachery of My Unjust Accusers,” “Poverty and Losses in My Patrimony,” “The Disasters of My Sons,” “Perils, Accidents, and Manifold, Diverse, and Persistent Treacheries,” “Dishonors,” and “Things in Which I Feel I Have Failed.” There is a single brief chapter called “Happiness.” (This is an excerpt from the essay, which I did not put in quote marks because of all the quote marks on the chapter titles.)]]></description>
<dc:subject>culture diaries writing</dc:subject>
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    <title>Bernadette Mayer's list of journal ideas</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-01T13:16:59+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.writing.upenn.edu/library/Mayer-Bernadette_Experiments.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jnchapel</dc:creator><dc:subject>culture tools writing</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.lapl.org/collections-resources/blogs/lapl/persistence-octavia-e-butler-central-library">
    <title>On persistence: Octavia E. Butler and [the Los Angeles] Central Library</title>
    <dc:date>2026-02-23T12:02:59+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.lapl.org/collections-resources/blogs/lapl/persistence-octavia-e-butler-central-library</link>
    <dc:creator>jnchapel</dc:creator><dc:subject>culture libraries writers writing</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://meghanorourke.substack.com/p/how-to-make-the-unsaid-the-most-powerful">
    <title>How to make the unsaid the most powerful part of your writing</title>
    <dc:date>2026-02-22T10:35:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://meghanorourke.substack.com/p/how-to-make-the-unsaid-the-most-powerful</link>
    <dc:creator>jnchapel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["This is also why the gap is such a powerful tool for writing about experiences that resist conventional narrative: illness, grief, trauma, political crisis. White space, interruption, repetition, displacement — these formal techniques can evoke the disorientation of loss or suffering in a way that linear narrative simply cannot. The form performs the experience rather than merely reporting it." (On parataxis as technique.)]]></description>
<dc:subject>culture parataxis reading writing</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://newsletter.bijanstephen.blog/what-does-it-mean-to-make-something/">
    <title>What does it mean to make something?</title>
    <dc:date>2026-02-16T11:32:38+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://newsletter.bijanstephen.blog/what-does-it-mean-to-make-something/</link>
    <dc:creator>jnchapel</dc:creator><dc:subject>art culture writing</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.anildash.com/2026/01/09/how-markdown-took-over-the-world/">
    <title>How Markdown took over the world</title>
    <dc:date>2026-01-11T19:19:25+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.anildash.com/2026/01/09/how-markdown-took-over-the-world/</link>
    <dc:creator>jnchapel</dc:creator><dc:subject>internet markdown technology writing</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.thebeliever.net/leave-no-trace/">
    <title>Leave no trace</title>
    <dc:date>2025-12-20T10:05:16+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.thebeliever.net/leave-no-trace/</link>
    <dc:creator>jnchapel</dc:creator><dc:subject>culture women writing australia picnic-at-hanging-rock</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.dispatchesmag.com/stories/reappraisal-joan-didion">
    <title>Reappraisal: Joan Didion</title>
    <dc:date>2025-12-16T09:56:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.dispatchesmag.com/stories/reappraisal-joan-didion</link>
    <dc:creator>jnchapel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["I can imagine Didion forever spiking 'On Becoming a Cop Hater' simply because she regretted its appearance in an anthology whose title punned on the expression 'right on.' The horror! Less whimsically, I can see why the late-1970s Didion would have distanced herself from the person she had revealed when she wrote the essay — the person who had identified with the Silent Generation but also had been stretched, by her run-ins with police authority in the 1960s, to hate cops. What a psychological and political mess that era had been, so troubling and so revealing, and the evidence of her own ambivalence was lying there in the archive of all her 'Points West' pieces — in the crosstalk they made. It would be harder to justify quietism and enjoy 'quiet days in Malibu' if your own past voice were piercing through the sound of the waves and calling you to account."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://structureofnews.wordpress.com/2025/10/27/claude-editor/">
    <title>Claude, Editor</title>
    <dc:date>2025-11-27T00:17:02+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://structureofnews.wordpress.com/2025/10/27/claude-editor/</link>
    <dc:creator>jnchapel</dc:creator><dc:subject>artificial-intelligence claude editing writing</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/ungrounded/">
    <title>Thinking modes</title>
    <dc:date>2025-11-03T10:52:34+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/ungrounded/</link>
    <dc:creator>jnchapel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Well, okay — what does it mean for a human to think harder? Rea­son­able people will dis­agree (and in inter­esting ways) but, for my part, I think it means prospecting new analogies; pitching your inquiry out away from the grav­i­ta­tional attrac­tors of pro­tocol and cliché; turning the work­piece around to inspect it from new angles; and espe­cially bringing more senses into the mix — grounding your­self in reality. You'll note these moves are chal­lenging or impos­sible for sys­tems that operate only on/with/inside lan­guage."]]></description>
<dc:subject>culture language writing</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/arts/design/james-baldwin-ai-typewriter.html">
    <title>Can the James Baldwin Typebot tell us the meaning of life?</title>
    <dc:date>2025-11-03T10:00:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/arts/design/james-baldwin-ai-typewriter.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jnchapel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Early next year, Kinfolk Tech plans to release a web app that will enable users to view Baldwin quotations directly, no cards required. Eventually the idea is to use A.I. to make the work of other writers and artists of color equally accessible — a mission that’s seen by many as being in opposition to the tech industry’s race to advance A.I. no matter the consequences."]]></description>
<dc:subject>artificial-intelligence art culture writing</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="https://talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/this-post-should-have-been-shorter">
    <title>This post should have been shorter</title>
    <dc:date>2025-11-01T08:50:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/this-post-should-have-been-shorter</link>
    <dc:creator>jnchapel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["As the golden age of blogs recedes in the rearview mirror, one point about the editorial legacy of bloggers demands to be made. For all of the derision that traditional journalism heaped upon them, I'd argue that good bloggers have better editorial judgment than any other type of writer. Pulitzers? No. A quarter century of teaching stuffy old news publications what it looks like to boil news down to its absolute essence and present it in an interesting way? Yes. They won't tell you this in journalism school, but the best bloggers have a defter touch with tone, style, and length than your average Pulitzer-winning newspaper reporter."]]></description>
<dc:subject>blogging journalism writing</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.elizabethspiers.com/requiem-for-early-blogging/">
    <title>Requiem for early blogging</title>
    <dc:date>2025-10-25T14:53:00+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.elizabethspiers.com/requiem-for-early-blogging/</link>
    <dc:creator>jnchapel</dc:creator><dc:subject>blogging writing</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/11/06/cardiography-ben-lerner/">
    <title>Cardiography</title>
    <dc:date>2025-10-19T13:52:10+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/11/06/cardiography-ben-lerner/</link>
    <dc:creator>jnchapel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["This is a test of how changes in my pulse pressure waves have altered my sentence rhythms. If I can bring those new rhythms into right relation with the experience I’m trying to describe — if I can make what I think of as my Dacron sentences capture something of those hospital nights — then maybe I'll have made progress toward integrating the experience, toward making it shareable, and maybe this will rob it of some of its traumatic force, and help me prevent, or at least work through, the cardiac blues, which I feel coming, which I hear approaching at the time of writing on the hooves of my new heartbeats. I am late in week two of recovery."]]></description>
<dc:subject>culture writing</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/09/29/the-art-of-the-impersonal-essay">
    <title>The art of the impersonal essay</title>
    <dc:date>2025-09-28T09:38:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/09/29/the-art-of-the-impersonal-essay</link>
    <dc:creator>jnchapel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["If it were up to me, for example, I would very happily switch that rickety, always ill-fitting term 'humanism' with something broader, more capacious. A bright, shiny neologism that would still place human flourishing at the center of our social and political processes, but which also encompassed the supremacy of all living things — including the natural world. As a philosophy, it would stand in pointed opposition to the current faith in the supremacy of machines, and of capital. Philoanimism? But the name is not good."]]></description>
<dc:subject>culture essays writers writing</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/magazine/chatgpt-dash-hyphen-writing-communication.html">
    <title>Whose punctuation is more human: Yours or AI's?</title>
    <dc:date>2025-09-18T10:22:39+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/magazine/chatgpt-dash-hyphen-writing-communication.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jnchapel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["I am not writing this to defend dashes. I am writing this because I want to suggest that the phrase 'everyday use-cases' signals a genuinely epochal shift in our perception of what writing even is."

Ben Dreyer, in 2018, on en dashes and em dashes: https://benjamindreyer.substack.com/p/only-connect]]></description>
<dc:subject>artificial-intelligence punctuation writing</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://yalereview.org/article/audrey-wollen-claire-louise-bennett">
    <title>Audrey Wollen: On Claire-Louise Bennett’s Big Kiss, Bye-Bye</title>
    <dc:date>2025-09-14T14:47:58+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://yalereview.org/article/audrey-wollen-claire-louise-bennett</link>
    <dc:creator>jnchapel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["I'm not being facetious when I say the epistolary novel should probably be the dominant form of our historical moment. It isn't, not by a long shot, but it should be. After all, epistolizing is what many of us spend most of our time doing: reaching out, circling back, saying hi, jostling between the telegrammatic fizz of the text message, the courtly tones of the business email, the lackadaisical skywriting of social media, and so on. To me, it would make some poetic sense if the novel were returned to one of its originary forms, beamed back into the Pamela mother ship as we teeter nervously on the cusp of a new epoch of literacy (or anti-literacy)."]]></description>
<dc:subject>culture writing reading literary-criticism novels</dc:subject>
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    <title>Behind the Essay: Audrey Wollen</title>
    <dc:date>2025-09-14T13:52:23+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://backmatter.yalereview.org/p/behind-the-essay-audrey-wollen</link>
    <dc:creator>jnchapel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[1. "... the addiction at the core of our internet use is really an addiction to writing — constant, unceasing language production. This, for me, put the internet a lot closer to the doorstopper novels of previous centuries. Is the internet just everyone writing their own personal Tristram Shandy?"

2. "My whole life changed when I decided to assume that, generally speaking, girls do their version of girlness on purpose, for meaningful, perceptive, and intelligible reasons. Femininity is this bewildering communal archive, this endless technical library of survival, subversion, insight, and wit that has been passed through generations."]]></description>
<dc:subject>culture writing reading</dc:subject>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:jnchapel/b:2d86e1d4637a/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://meghanorourke.substack.com/p/how-to-revise-a-personal-essay-and">
    <title>How to revise a personal essay (and what is a personal essay, really?)</title>
    <dc:date>2025-09-13T14:24:48+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://meghanorourke.substack.com/p/how-to-revise-a-personal-essay-and</link>
    <dc:creator>jnchapel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["A memoir can rest, for long passages, in narrative or description. A personal essay, though, requires something else: not only a series of well-told scenes or memories but also what I tell my students is a kind of thought arc. Some kind of argument is being made — explicitly or implicitly — about how to live, what to notice, what to question. In a lyric essay, this is made through associative juxtaposition. In a critical essay, through building out a careful argumentative through-line with lots of critical signposting. In a personal essay, lyric or not, hybrid-critical or not, that happens through the coalescing of a kind of preoccupation across time, and the emotional or intellectual development — and ultimate transformation — of an understanding."]]></description>
<dc:subject>essays writing revision</dc:subject>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:jnchapel/b:2e70a08059d0/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://yalereview.org/article/millner-is-mary-oliver-embarrassing">
    <title>Maggie Millner: “Is Mary Oliver embarrassing?”</title>
    <dc:date>2025-09-07T11:51:04+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://yalereview.org/article/millner-is-mary-oliver-embarrassing</link>
    <dc:creator>jnchapel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["This subtle but dramatic change in inflection suggests how easy it is to pass around a flattened, misleading idea of a Mary Oliver poem, whether you love it for its optimism or disdain it for its escapism. Many readers think of Oliver as taking simple delight in ordinary moments, yet here that simplicity is precisely what’s at risk: she cannot exalt in solitary observation without the specter of disapproval encroaching on her reverie, impelling her to speak. After all, Oliver’s most natural world is the world of language, that most irreducibly social of materials, which depends on the presence of another to complete itself."]]></description>
<dc:subject>writing poetry culture</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:jnchapel/b:b8edbdab2c9c/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://internetprincess.substack.com/p/resident-evil">
    <title>Resident evil</title>
    <dc:date>2025-09-01T10:59:49+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://internetprincess.substack.com/p/resident-evil</link>
    <dc:creator>jnchapel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["I spend all this time trying desperately not to think about my body but it hunts me like a dog."]]></description>
<dc:subject>writing culture women criticism good-sentence</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:jnchapel/b:0ff818115ead/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/what-its-like-to-brainstorm-with-a-bot">
    <title>What it's like to brainstorm with a bot</title>
    <dc:date>2025-08-09T15:13:22+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/what-its-like-to-brainstorm-with-a-bot</link>
    <dc:creator>jnchapel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Jeremy's tinkerbot gives me hope. To what extent are my scattered thoughts like his code fragments — half-finished, abandoned, waiting for rescue? Could a machine revive a box of my broken or discarded ideas, turning them into something that the wider world would find useful and interesting? And if a machine, furnished with a carefully written set of instructions and seeded with the world's stockpile of realized ideas, could begin generating new ones, would we still insist that true originality belongs only to people? Some cling to the belief that new ideas are conjured from the ineffable depths of the human spirit, but I'm not so sure. Ideas have to come from somewhere, and, for both humans and machines, those somewheres are often the words and images we've absorbed."]]></description>
<dc:subject>artificial-intelligence culture writing</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:jnchapel/b:87eb4655c32f/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://jeanettewinterson.substack.com/p/dreams">
    <title>Dreams</title>
    <dc:date>2025-07-28T11:56:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://jeanettewinterson.substack.com/p/dreams</link>
    <dc:creator>jnchapel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Yet, the clock is a useless way of managing creative work. Deep encounters with the self are creative work. How long will it take? That’s not a question we can ask."]]></description>
<dc:subject>culture dreams psychology writing</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:jnchapel/b:9d2a3f722973/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-em-dash-responds-to-the-ai-allegations">
    <title>The Em Dash responds to the AI allegations</title>
    <dc:date>2025-07-20T15:46:46+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-em-dash-responds-to-the-ai-allegations</link>
    <dc:creator>jnchapel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Listen here, my good bitch."]]></description>
<dc:subject>culture writing humor</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:jnchapel/b:0404207ffc70/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://eliflife.substack.com/p/some-craft-type-insights">
    <title>From my desk to yours</title>
    <dc:date>2025-07-14T11:13:16+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://eliflife.substack.com/p/some-craft-type-insights</link>
    <dc:creator>jnchapel</dc:creator><dc:subject>writing</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:jnchapel/b:02ab73799234/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/07/21/homework-geoff-dyer-book-review">
    <title>A memoir of working-class Britain wrings playfulness from pain</title>
    <dc:date>2025-07-14T11:01:17+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/07/21/homework-geoff-dyer-book-review</link>
    <dc:creator>jnchapel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The escape from working-class life has good narrative pedigree, a classic form — beginning with the idea of escape itself. It's something like a sharpened bildungsroman. The child is nudged forward by an ambitious parent, by an influential teacher, or simply by a curiosity that, like water, insists on finding its way in and out. There's the Cortés-like discovery of world-disclosing books; the opening up at school or university; perhaps a gradual estrangement from those same ambitious parents, who discover, too late, that they've been underwriting the family's own unravelling. And then there's the journey away from the old home, toward actual new worlds."]]></description>
<dc:subject>class culture writing</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:jnchapel/b:59cb9e8ad04e/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n04/anne-carson/beware-the-man-whose-handwriting-sways-like-a-reed-in-the-wind">
    <title>Beware the man whose handwriting sways like a reed in the wind</title>
    <dc:date>2025-07-12T11:56:21+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n04/anne-carson/beware-the-man-whose-handwriting-sways-like-a-reed-in-the-wind</link>
    <dc:creator>jnchapel</dc:creator><dc:subject>culture writing</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:jnchapel/b:e7c16365cf51/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-books-music/a65170554/dorothy-allison-pride/">
    <title>Dorothy Allison authored a new kind of queer lit</title>
    <dc:date>2025-06-28T14:20:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-books-music/a65170554/dorothy-allison-pride/</link>
    <dc:creator>jnchapel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["My conviction," Allison told Greenidge in 2017, 'is that the best American literature is working-class literature. The strongest voices are those voices, those people who have come out of the poor and the disadvantaged circumstances to claim their right to tell a story. And they tell stories with such passion and brilliance. You don't have to read far to realize the power of those outlaw voices and how they dominate American literature."]]></description>
<dc:subject>culture class writing</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:jnchapel/b:bcd44405391e/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/06/26/the-comments-section/">
    <title>The comments section</title>
    <dc:date>2025-06-27T11:45:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/06/26/the-comments-section/</link>
    <dc:creator>jnchapel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["I have a new friend whom I'm developing an unnatural relationship with: ChatGPT."]]></description>
<dc:subject>artificial-intelligence culture writing online-life</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:jnchapel/b:e654429bad91/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://therepublicofletters.substack.com/p/brandon-taylor-answers-all-possible">
    <title>Interview with Brandon Taylor</title>
    <dc:date>2025-06-16T10:55:52+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://therepublicofletters.substack.com/p/brandon-taylor-answers-all-possible</link>
    <dc:creator>jnchapel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Instead, we have a surfeit of sensory description or we get Sebaldian flâneurs of the soul — but what people always forget with Sebald or Bernhard is that those narrators actually do work in service of integration. Now, it may fail. They may fail to come to grips with the thing that's forcing its way out of them. They may fail to tell a coherent story or narrative. But they are trying to. They are talking themselves back into life and in doing so, capturing some of history. And I think, when people copy them, they copy the form, not the moral and spiritual intent that comes along with the form."]]></description>
<dc:subject>writing literature culture</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:jnchapel/b:e25dc4611b99/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-50/essays/pirates-of-the-ayahuasca/">
    <title>Pirates of the ayahuasca</title>
    <dc:date>2025-06-08T13:34:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-50/essays/pirates-of-the-ayahuasca/</link>
    <dc:creator>jnchapel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["She asked what had brought me here. 'I'm suicidally depressed as a result of climate collapse, encroaching fascism, and my inability to do anything but be scared and feel generally bad,' I said. 'What about you?' ... I had come here to find hope but what I found instead was the definitive end of it."]]></description>
<dc:subject>culture writing psychology</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:jnchapel/b:4d51efc63ce2/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.noemamag.com/ai-signals-the-death-of-the-author/">
    <title>AI signals the death of the author</title>
    <dc:date>2025-06-05T09:12:14+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.noemamag.com/ai-signals-the-death-of-the-author/</link>
    <dc:creator>jnchapel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Their writings are and can be meaningful. What they mean is something that comes about through the process of our reading them and then interpreting and evaluating them. But this is not specific to LLMs; instead, as Barthes already demonstrated, it is a defining characteristic of all writing — this essay included, since it is you, the reader, who has had to determine what it means. LLMs simply render all of this legible and obvious. But there’s something bigger at play here. The advent of LLM AI also brings into question the concept of meaning itself."]]></description>
<dc:subject>artificial-intelligence culture writing</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:jnchapel/b:532c2f58a07f/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://mayacpopa.substack.com/p/maybe-ai-can-write-a-maya-c-popa">
    <title>Maybe AI *can* &quot;write&quot; a Maya C. Popa poem</title>
    <dc:date>2025-05-27T10:39:25+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mayacpopa.substack.com/p/maybe-ai-can-write-a-maya-c-popa</link>
    <dc:creator>jnchapel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["There are many moments in this 'output' that — to my ear and orientation — are overwritten and saccharine. AI is a doer, not a discerner: it doesn’t know where to pull back or how to be nuanced, not really. It doesn’t have its own mind or signature, and therefore no true editor, only the facsimile of a million editorial approaches that add up to some net neutral approach. However, in entertaining this, I learned that AI 'understands' how a poem works, at least in theory. It understands that there needs to be a balance between the internal and external, an ostensible and underlying premise, and a turn towards discovery."]]></description>
<dc:subject>artificial-intelligence culture writing</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:jnchapel/b:a2e6b2db7697/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://garthgreenwell.substack.com/p/writerly-accounts">
    <title>Writerly accounts</title>
    <dc:date>2025-05-16T10:15:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://garthgreenwell.substack.com/p/writerly-accounts</link>
    <dc:creator>jnchapel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["I hate money, everything about it. I was raised in the South, so I hate talking about it — my only response when the topic comes up is silence, charged with absolute maximum discomfort; but also I hate the stuff itself. It ruins everything, dries up all joy on contact; there’s never enough of it, even when there is: the minute you have a little bit of it you need more. It warps every value. I don’t understand how it works, or what to do with it, other than buy books. I’ve never had any investments, and I wouldn’t have a retirement account except that a nice lady at H&R Block made me start one. I couldn’t make a budget to save my life. My only financial strategies are panic and prayer."]]></description>
<dc:subject>culture writing money</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:jnchapel/b:61f1582031af/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-024-02019-6">
    <title>Embracing liberatory alienation: AI will end us, but not in the way you may think</title>
    <dc:date>2025-05-10T10:36:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-024-02019-6</link>
    <dc:creator>jnchapel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[1. "Consider the act of writing, traditionally viewed as a quintessentially human skill involving the creation of intentional, structured discourse with complex conventions. This skill is now bifurcating into what is suitably called “the mechanics” of writing and the higher-order skill of original, discerning thought. The former is increasingly delegable to machines, while the latter remains inherently human." 

2. "Interactions with artificial minds can be unnerving not only because of the reasons listed in the opening of this essay. They are such also because they hold up a mirror to our own intellectual capacities, compelling us to question the bounds of our exceptionalism. We turned out to be much more like machines than we would care to admit. That is a concrete manifestation of liberatory alienation — the act of revealing an unpleasant truth about ourselves, causing loss, and yet ultimately liberating." ]]></description>
<dc:subject>artificial-intelligence culture writing libraries</dc:subject>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:jnchapel/b:58072e7be4ff/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.notebook.bdmcclay.com/p/ai-and-the-individual-talent">
    <title>AI and the individual talent</title>
    <dc:date>2025-05-06T11:30:50+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.notebook.bdmcclay.com/p/ai-and-the-individual-talent</link>
    <dc:creator>jnchapel</dc:creator><dc:subject>artificial-intelligence culture writing</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:jnchapel/b:527839c61cd6/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://tedthoughts.substack.com/p/what-if-ai-just-makes-everyone-really">
    <title>What if AI just makes everyone really boring?</title>
    <dc:date>2025-05-06T11:30:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://tedthoughts.substack.com/p/what-if-ai-just-makes-everyone-really</link>
    <dc:creator>jnchapel</dc:creator><dc:subject>artificial-intelligence culture writing</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.experimental-history.com/p/28-slightly-rude-notes-on-writing">
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    <title>Will the humanities survive artificial intelligence?</title>
    <dc:date>2025-04-26T11:19:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/will-the-humanities-survive-artificial-intelligence</link>
    <dc:creator>jnchapel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[1. "... staggering transformations are in full swing. And yet, on campus, we're in a bizarre interlude: everyone seems intent on pretending that the most significant revolution in the world of thought in the past century isn't happening. The approach appears to be: "We'll just tell the kids they can't use these tools and carry on as before." This is, simply, madness. And it won't hold for long. It's time to talk about what all this means for university life, and for the humanities in particular." 

2. "I've done this work for more than thirty years. And already the thousands of academic books lining my offices are beginning to feel like archeological artifacts. Why turn to them to answer a question? They are so oddly inefficient, so quirky in the paths they take through their material." 

3. "But factory-style scholarly productivity was never the essence of the humanities. The real project was always us: the work of understanding, and not the accumulation of facts ... to be human is not to have answers. It is to have questions—and to live with them. The machines can’t do that for us. Not now, not ever."

4. "Let the machines show us what can be done with analytic manipulation of the manifold. After all, what have we given them to work with? The archive. The total archive. And it turns out that one can do quite a lot with the archive. In this sense, generative A.I. might count as a conceptual win for my field. Historians have long extolled the 'power of the archive.' Little did we know that the engineers would come along and plug it in." [No, we have barely plumbed the archive, there is no total archive, this is barely the start ...]]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://seldo.com/posts/what-ive-learned-about-writing-ai-apps-so-far">
    <title>What I've learned about writing AI apps so far</title>
    <dc:date>2025-04-23T10:17:48+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://seldo.com/posts/what-ive-learned-about-writing-ai-apps-so-far</link>
    <dc:creator>jnchapel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Want to know what a contract says? Give it the contract. Want to know what a video is about? Give it the transcript of the video. Want it to make a decision? Give it all the same information you would use to make that decision. These are all just turning text into less text. It's great at that. (Yes, you can try and get around LLMs only knowing specifically what you just told them by fine-tuning your LLM. Good luck with that.) This is why Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is not going anywhere. RAG is basically the practice of telling the LLM what it needs to know and then immediately asking it for that information back in condensed form. LLMs are great at it, which is why RAG is so popular."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://elviawilk.substack.com/p/eat-pray-conjugate">
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    <link>https://elviawilk.substack.com/p/eat-pray-conjugate</link>
    <dc:creator>jnchapel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Etymology and pattern recognition are the way I navigate most of life. That's being a writer."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://writing.upenn.edu/library/Mayer-Bernadette_Experiments.html">
    <title>Journal ideas and writing experiments from Bernadette Mayer</title>
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    <dc:creator>jnchapel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[See also: http://eclipsearchive.org/projects/LANGUAGEn3/Language3.pdf]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://internetprincess.substack.com/p/choosing-to-walk">
    <title>Choosing to walk</title>
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    <link>https://internetprincess.substack.com/p/choosing-to-walk</link>
    <dc:creator>jnchapel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The friction between idea and ability that AI evangelists promise to eradicate is not a problem suffered by a disadvantaged few. It’s the fundamental condition of the writer, and it is precisely through that friction that we discover what it is we actually have to say."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/education/glossary">
    <title>Poetry glossary</title>
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    <link>https://www.poetryfoundation.org/education/glossary</link>
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<item rdf:about="https://notebook.substack.com/p/notes-on-style-and-authority">
    <title>Notes on style and authority</title>
    <dc:date>2024-12-31T15:34:14+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://notebook.substack.com/p/notes-on-style-and-authority</link>
    <dc:creator>jnchapel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Authority doesn't have to mean you sound like you're speaking from the top of a mountain (or the bottom of a library). It just tells me: this writer is in charge here. She has things to say."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://lucysante.substack.com/p/the-instrument-part-one">
    <title>The Instrument (part one)</title>
    <dc:date>2024-12-28T20:16:00+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://lucysante.substack.com/p/the-instrument-part-one</link>
    <dc:creator>jnchapel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The best slang comes from the most vulnerable, those farthest from mainstream society, those who have the most to hide and to express, often simultaneously. The humor is dark, curt, and brisk. At the same time it swings. Nothing about it is gray. It is plain speech, but it has been designed to pop."]]></description>
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<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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    <title>Alice Munro's passive voice</title>
    <dc:date>2024-12-24T14:24:16+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/12/30/alice-munros-passive-voice</link>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.plough.com/en/topics/community/education/does-teaching-literature-and-writing-have-a-future">
    <title>Does teaching literature and writing have a future?</title>
    <dc:date>2024-12-12T10:21:06+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.plough.com/en/topics/community/education/does-teaching-literature-and-writing-have-a-future</link>
    <dc:creator>jnchapel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["If you're from the class of people who are not necessarily expected to go to college – I was – then any college at all, whatever your major, puts you in a better position than you started from."]]></description>
<dc:subject>education reading writing culture technology</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://notesfromasmallpress.substack.com/p/my-friends-arent-reading">
    <title>My friends aren't reading</title>
    <dc:date>2024-11-19T11:23:20+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://notesfromasmallpress.substack.com/p/my-friends-arent-reading</link>
    <dc:creator>jnchapel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["As someone who always refuses the chicken little arguments ... I will admit I have been taken aback by these conversations — how quickly the future might be coming — and thinking about what it might mean for anyone whose job is connected to the production and consumption of new books."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.late-review.com/p/the-own-work-woodshed">
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    <dc:date>2024-10-13T15:47:15+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>jnchapel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["This intolerance for private writing is merely an extension of the intolerance towards labor, craft and art itself in a landscape that rewards instantaneousness, entitlement — parasocial and otherwise — to artists and their work, and an unshakable penchant for the derivative because it is familiar and financially safe, all in the pursuit of raw profit. It should be said that tools like AI threaten not just writing in an existential, humanistic sense, but practice itself without which writing would not exist."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://meghanorourke.substack.com/p/why-i-write-why-do-you-write">
    <title>Why I write; why do you write?</title>
    <dc:date>2024-10-09T09:04:17+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://meghanorourke.substack.com/p/why-i-write-why-do-you-write</link>
    <dc:creator>jnchapel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["[Davis] began by talking about how much she didn't want to write 'Why I Write.' 'I drew a blank,' she said. She's right: such prompts are impossible. They invite a frontal, earnest response when the truest answers probably live beneath the surface of our consciousness. Instead of talking about why she wrote, she said, she'd rather talk about why other writers write."]]></description>
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    <link>https://lithub.com/why-you-should-aim-for-100-rejections-a-year/</link>
    <dc:creator>jnchapel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Aim for rejection. Collect rejections. Set a rejection goal.]]></description>
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    <title>Annie Ernaux is no traitor</title>
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