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As I wrote on my site a while back, every good writer has to be a good reader. Put in the work reading today, and the writing tomorrow will get that much better.
Thus, in honor of #WorldBookDay, here are three books I'm reading to make me a better writer:
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"We stand in the bleachers watching lives unfold like innings, cheering the dramatic plays, leaving during the quiet stretches. How quickly we forget that beneath every uniform is a body trying to make it home."
Loved the poetic prose in this @_andrewfleig piece on former Cubs player Jimmy Piersall.
andrewfleig.net/on-heroes-an…
mid-day meditations.
philosophy, artistry, current events.
all for free: andrewfleig.net/newsletter
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Perhaps the most mind boggling aspect of modern social politics is this talking point that politicians and people with extraordinary amounts of wealth “hate the establishment”. Politics, at its core, is a game of power, money, and consolidation-mix and match however you want. Normal people agree in that we don’t like it-said people with extraordinary amounts of money don’t typically benefit us. But politicians saying it means they don’t like the competition that the establishment brings, competition that is inevitably healthy for protecting our interests in the long run.
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Velma Pollard.. distinguished poet, novelist, and educator. Beyond your storytelling, you were a scholar and a custodian of our language and culture. You helped to shape a generation of thinkers and writers.
Walk good, literary genius.
The only thing worse than living in a soon-to-be autocracy is Cashman letting Soto, perhaps the most stable investment in the history of baseball, walk into an increasingly autocractic free agent market.
Be a rich dude and do your job.
One of my favorite #newsletters I've ever written, inspired by Paul Auster's "Why Write?":
newyorker.com/magazine/1995/…
Out tomorrow.
It’s been almost 8 months since I launched my newsletter
And this week, I wrote my first piece on something I’ve pondered for a while: @benshapiro’s theory of masculinity
Take a read here: andrewfleig.net/on-hierarchy
A new piece of writing advice: take it lightly.
Not every book needs to be a Caro. Cut the fat, and tell the story as you want it to be told -- not as you thnk it should.
"In fact, the fuller it is, the less it will be able to fly." - @calvinopodcast
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In a Japanese TV appearance Marxist philosopher Saito Kohei criticized what he sees as the IOC's "double standard" that is "sportswashing" Israel's ongoing war. Russia is banned from the Olympics, but not Israel.
The switching of narratives for both Trump/Harris in a matter of minutes only signifies that politics is no longer about results -- only labels
Just a reminder that @AndrewYang reminded people of the dangers of capitalism, the clash between AI and the middle class, and the importance of ranked choice voting almost five years ago now
The rambling discussion only furthers the idea that rhetoric lingers wayyyy longer than you think, to the point that if you repeat one idea long enough, you'll entirely forget that the next one was even brought up (or formally, confirms the illusory truth effect)
