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Maria Bustillos

Posted inBusiness & Tech, Story

The Internet Isn’t Forever

by Maria Bustillos February 20, 2018October 19, 2022

When an online news outlet goes out of business, its archives can disappear as well. The new battle over journalism’s digital legacy.

Posted inFeatured, Fiction, Nonfiction, Story, Writing

The Anton Chekhov-George Saunders Humanity Kit: An Introduction

by Maria Bustillos February 15, 2017October 19, 2022

A little over three years ago I asked George Saunders whether I could sit in on one of his MFA classes at Syracuse, and, flabbergastingly, he said okay.

Posted inFeatured, Nonfiction, Story

STAT: My Daughter’s MS Diagnosis and the Question My Doctors Couldn’t Answer

by Maria Bustillos September 14, 2016October 19, 2022

Is there a dietary treatment for multiple sclerosis? And if so, why is the medical establishment ignoring published academic research that started in the 1950s proving it?

Posted inFeatured, Nonfiction

STAT: My Daughter’s MS Diagnosis and the Question My Doctors Couldn’t Answer

by Maria Bustillos September 14, 2016October 19, 2022

Is there a dietary treatment for multiple sclerosis? And if so, why is the medical establishment ignoring published academic research that started in the 1950s proving it?

Posted inMember Pick, Nonfiction, Story

Friendship Is Complicated

by Maria Bustillos January 28, 2015October 19, 2022

Art, commerce, and the battle for the soul of My Little Pony.

Posted inMember Pick, Nonfiction

Friendship Is Complicated

by Maria Bustillos January 28, 2015October 19, 2022

Art, commerce, and the battle for the soul of My Little Pony.

Posted inUncategorized

Longreads Best of 2012: Maria Bustillos

by Maria Bustillos December 19, 2012October 20, 2022

Maria Bustillos is a Los Angeles-based writer whose work for The Awl and Los Angeles Review of Books was featured on Longreads this year. In the essay “Freedom Is Overrated,” the theologian and scholar Sancrucensis contrasts the humanism of Jonathan Franzen with that of David Foster Wallace. A transcendentally beautiful and heartbreaking meditation on self and other. […]

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