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…