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Posted inFeatured, Highlight, History, Quote Posts, Quotes

‘The American People Have Been Constantly Lied To’

by Krista Stevens December 9, 2019October 19, 2022

“U.S. officials constantly said they were making progress. They were not, and they knew it.”

Posted inEditor's Pick

In My Own Voice, Redefining Success and Failure

by Sari Botton January 7, 2019October 19, 2022

In this personal essay, Lauren DePino looks back at her ambitions as a singer, and re-evaluates the rejections she once allowed to define her.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Featured, Nonfiction, Story

In My Own Voice, Redefining Success and Failure

by Lauren DePino January 7, 2019October 19, 2022

Lauren DePino looks back at her ambitions as a singer, and re-evaluates the rejections she once allowed to define her.

Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Featured, Nonfiction

In My Own Voice, Redefining Success and Failure

by Lauren DePino January 7, 2019October 19, 2022

Lauren DePino looks back at her ambitions as a singer, and re-evaluates the rejections she once allowed to define her.

Posted inBusiness, Current Events, Nonfiction, Quotes, Travel

Trump Properties As Symbols of American Mediocrity and Lies

by Aaron Gilbreath March 16, 2018October 19, 2022

The only thing a tourist who stays at Trump properties gets for free is a disturbing vision of America’s future.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Featured, Nonfiction, Quotes

On Self Reflection: An Incomplete List of My Failures

by Krista Stevens May 10, 2017October 19, 2022

Sarah Gerard digs into her failures as part of her ongoing recovery from anorexia and bulimia.

Posted inBooks, Quotes

‘Elephant and Piggie’ Author Mo Willems on the Importance of Teaching Kids to Fail

by heymarkarms February 10, 2017October 19, 2022

The beloved author confronts some critical questions.

Posted inNonfiction, Reading List

The Art and Science of Failure

by Longreads February 13, 2015October 19, 2022

We are excited to share a reading (and watching!) list on science and failure from guest contributor Louise Lief. In 2014 Louise Lief began the Science and the Media project, an initiative that explores how science relates to our everyday lives. She is the former deputy director of the International Reporting Project.

Posted inNonfiction, Quotes

‘Two-Thirds of Publishing Is About Failure’

by heymarkarms September 5, 2014October 19, 2022

My boss when I worked in London—someone who’d published Booker Prize winners, remember—used to say that two-thirds of publishing is about failure. I agree with that: it’s the nature of the business. And yet publishing is an industry that keeps attracting to it, in various ways, people who want it to be two-thirds about success. […]

Posted inNonfiction, Quotes

From Facebook Reject to Purchased by Facebook for $19 Billion

by heymarkarms February 20, 2014October 19, 2022

Over the next nine years the pair also watched Yahoo go through multiple ups and downs. Acton invested in the dotcom boom, and lost millions in the 2000 bust. For all of his distaste for advertising now he was also deep in it back then, getting pulled in to help launch Yahoo’s important and much-delayed […]

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