Anthology production and manuscript submissions
Currently reviewing manuscript submissions and curating our first print anthology! We’re thrilled that Vera Blossom is writing the introduction for the anthology. If you aren’t familiar with her work, you can get to know it and learn more about her here.
Arguing with strangers, brain rot, and phone productivity
People are reading more than ever—words, not books—text messages, social media captions, arguments in the comments.
Most of us probably know this already, if only intuitively. But know it or not, if you’re like us, “phone productivity” is high.
This very smart New Yorker article by Jay Caspian Kang explores more than just the ills of phone addiction and benefits of book-reading, though, and it’s worth a read if you’ve got a few minutes.
Here’s a sample:
The experience of reading can benefit from the rockier mental terrain that books provide; the boredom and impatience that longer texts sometimes inspire can help push and prod one’s thinking more than things that are perfectly distilled.
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