How We Keep It All Together

On Literate Machine, and the struggle to think with care through worldly despair

Last week I had a massive editing project come down to the wire because I’d been sick the week before, in a month when I really didn’t have time on my schedule to be sick.

Day and night, I was consumed by catch-up on the darned thing, but I kept telling myself that there was a kind of “good fortune” in being spared the need to put together a piece about …