Tag:weekly-essay
All the articles with the tag "weekly-essay".
The Circus
Simone de Beauvoir watched white America turn jazz into a circus in 1947. Fifty years later, the same machine found hip-hop. The story of watching the thing you love get co-opted while you're still inside it.
Grow It From Seeds
A neighbor digs up your garden in broad daylight. That's the entire story of American extraction culture — and American soccer.
The One-Essay-a-Week System
For 100 days I wrote every morning and shipped nothing. Then I realized I was already writing essays — I just didn't have a system for finishing them. This is the system I built.