Will Literary Communities Save Us?
On Writing as an Industry, Social Media Pressures, and Being Fully Human
I am often drawn back to a formative reading experience in 2008: a column by Stanley Fish that gave me language for doubts I was having about the academic world. In “Will the Humanities Save Us?”, Fish considers the humanist appeal of an education in literature: a set of texts that might move us to better action.
It’s a pretty idea, but there is no evide…
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