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Posted inEssays & Criticism, Food, Nonfiction, Quotes
To Your Door: The Human Cost of Food Delivery
To earn money during a rough patch as a freelancer, Sam Riches worked as a bike courier, delivering food in Toronto during a six-month period. While the job lacked in pay, it offered one intriguing benefit: a crash course in human nature.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
The Digital Age Won’t Kill Paper
Just like handwriting survived long after the introduction of print, paper is still very much part of our internet-era economy.
Posted inBlog Post, Books, Business, Commentary
How the Self-Publishing Industry Changed, Between My First and Second Novels
In the last few years, self-publishing and marketing your own books has become increasingly more difficult.
Posted inHighlight, Nonfiction, Quotes
The Placeless and the Privileged
On the macro forces that have made digital nomadism something more powerful, and more sinister, than just another “lifestyle choice.”
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
One Coastal Scottish Village Learns the Real Meaning of Community
The Scottish village of Portpatrick saved its harbor and identity through a once-obscure ownership model, community shares.
Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Uncategorized
California’s Housing Crisis Is About Jobs, Not Houses
It’s not the pace of housing construction. It’s that the world’s most successful companies are gathered in a small number of cities.
Posted inReading List
Alternative Reality: An Alt-Weekly Reading List
Nine excellent stories discovered in U.S. alt-weekly newspapers.
Posted inCrime, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
‘I Saw My Countrymen Marched Out of Tacoma’
It started in Eureka, then it spread. Up and down the Pacific Coast, white mobs turned on Chinese-Americans.
Posted inArts & Culture, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
Shelved: Fiona Apple’s Extraordinary Machine
How the songwriter’s abandoned third album became two albums.
