Game designer Jane McGonigal argues that playing games can help us develop skills for life.
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Just Below the Surface
Dubious wilderness, cutthroat business, and human casualties in the war over the fabled Californian Oyster.
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Reading List: Teenage Girls As Role Models
I’m navigating a transitional space; my role models are teenage girls.
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The Nine Lives of Cat Videos
Are cat videos mindless distraction or a radical form of pure entertainment? A visit to the Internet Cat Video Festival at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.
Posted inNonfiction, Story
Just Below the Surface
Dubious wilderness, cutthroat business, and human casualties in the war over the fabled Californian Oyster.
Posted inNonfiction, Reading List
Reading List: Teenage Girls As Role Models
I’m navigating a transitional space; my role models are teenage girls.
Posted inNonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Story
How to Get SuperBetter
Game designer Jane McGonigal argues that playing games can help us develop skills for life.
Posted inNonfiction, Reading List, Uncategorized
Kelly Link Is Beloved, But Still Underrated: A Primer on My Favorite Living Short Story Writer
There’s that urge in adolescence when you feel like you discovered something, maybe a song, a book, or a painting, that resonates so deeply within you, to protect it, and keep it secret and close, so that you feel like you have claim of something wondrous and all your own. And if you share the […]
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Why Do So Many People Pretend to Be Native American?
On Iron Eyes Cody and “the tribe of the Wannabe.”
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The Summer of Love and Newsweek
The New Yorker’s Hendrik Hertzberg reflects on his early career working as a correspondent for Newsweek in San Francisco, covering Jefferson Airplane, Ronald Reagan and hippies: “If the S.F. music scene (I quickly learned that ‘Frisco’ was a no-no) was scarcely known outside the Bay Area, and neither was the larger cultural phenomenon it drew […]
