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Posted inArts & Culture, Essays & Criticism, Story

The Myth of Making It

by Soraya Roberts September 6, 2019October 19, 2022

If the most financially and critically successful artists don’t feel successful, maybe there’s something wrong with how we think about success.

Elderly Care
Posted inBooks, Highlight, Quotes, Writing

When Accepting Support Feels Like Becoming a Burden

by Catherine Cusick February 25, 2019October 19, 2022

When Ijeoma Oluo offers to buy her aging white mother a home, her mother worries she’s become a burden.

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 inArts & Culture, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Quotes

Tennessee Williams’ Catastrophe of Success

by Catherine Cusick July 18, 2017October 19, 2022

Fame turned the playwright into a “public Somebody” overnight — a crisis that landed him in the hospital.

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

John Lennon on What Made the Beatles Successful

by Longreads November 11, 2013October 19, 2022

“‘We thought we were the best in Hamburg and Liverpool—it was just a matter of time before everybody else caught on. We were the best fucking group in the goddamn world … and believing that is what made us what we were.’” -John Lennon, in a 1980 interview. Lennon is quoted in Andrew Romano’s 2013 […]

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