How to be Funny in French
(C’est incroyable, mais hier j’étais drôle en français.) I started studying French in 7th Grade, or maybe it was 6th. It’s hard to tell because it was the year my parents moved us to Australia and enrolled me in The Peninsula School, a few miles south of the last train [...]
You are what you read: The Spectacle of Let by Sam Zamarripa
It is not often that a new writer appears and causes the more established names on the bookshelf to shift to make room. In recent years, my own bookshelf has been transformed by the writing of Roberto Bolano, Haruki Murakami, Kate Atkinson and Colson Whitehead. To that list, I now [...]
How to pitch your big, beautiful idea so everyone’s a winner.
You know you’re smart. You know your idea is brilliant. And you know you’re passionate about what you’re working on. So how come nobody else is buying what you’re selling? Maybe it’s not the ideas they’re not buying. Maybe it’s you. To sell your idea is to sell yourself. So, [...]
