Marianne Janack's reading recommendations & some philosophy

Marianne Janack's reading recommendations & some philosophy

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What We Talk About When We Talk About Semantic Disputes
In my philosophy and literature course, we were talking about the difference between the Writer and the Author.
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Teaching Plato
from The Montréal Review
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The Smells of Spring
It’s 65 degrees here today, and I’ve been sneezing all day.
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Intermezzo: Grief, chess, Wittgenstein, and love
Sally Rooney has been heralded as the author who speaks for and to millennials, and she is credited with being able to bring together the conditions of…
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The Empusium: Highbrow Horror, Tuberculosis, Gender, and History
The new year began with a list of things to be afraid of--alcohol, loneliness, fluoride, scams, ultra-processed food, echo chambers, Elon Musk with…
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Humans and animals
Companion animal; pet; adoptee; opportunistic nestling; mouse hunting machine: we called him Sidney. We had to have him euthanized last week.Marianne…
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Machines Like Us
Photo by Maxim Tajer on Unsplash
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Marianne Janack's reading recommendations & some philosophy
Marianne Janack's reading recommendations & some philosophy
books, stories, essays: philosophical, literary, and just plain fun
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For Dear Life with Maggie Smith
For Dear Life with Maggie Smith
Maggie Smith
Story Club with George Saunders
Story Club with George Saunders
George Saunders
In the Writing Burrow
In the Writing Burrow
Margaret Atwood
The Hinternet
The Hinternet
Justin Smith-Ruiu
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My Beth Life
Beth Morrow

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