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Getting Personal in the Age of Identity.

Getting Personal in the Age of Identity.

This Year's URL? Cherry-picking robots to pillage our prose.

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May 11, 2023
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Illustration for ‘The Depressed Person’ by David Foster Wallace, Harper’s Magazine, 1998.

‘We are sort of in the age of identity now and if you don’t have that and you sound like everybody else, there’s no way to survive.’ – Mike Solana (Pirate Wires) in conversation with Ted Gioia (The Honest Broker) on today’s episode of ‘The Active Voice.’

Every Cloud Has A Sylvia Lining.

I had my first personal essay published by the age of ten. A short and sweet would-like-to-meet in the pen pal section of The Early Times, a supplement slapped down with The Sunday Times next to white bread toast at the weekend. ‘Who else likes horse riding?’ I likely vibrated. I see dead people.

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