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Monthly Archives: March 2025
Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast: A Literary Manifesto for the New Social Novel
Grok says: Tom Wolfe’s essay “Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast: A Literary Manifesto for the New Social Novel,” published in Harper’s Magazine in November 1989, is a passionate and provocative call to arms for American writers to reclaim the realistic novel … Continue reading
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Norman Podhoretz On Race
Grok says: Norman Podhoretz’s essay “My Negro Problem—And Ours,” published in Commentary magazine in February 1963, is a deeply personal and provocative exploration of race relations in mid-20th-century America, filtered through the author’s experiences growing up in a racially mixed … Continue reading
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Fat Acceptance and Vaccine Rejectionism
Rony Guldmann writes: Sweetgreen CEO Jonathan Nemen sparked a firestorm in October 2021 when he posted on Linkedin that America hadn’t been paying enough attention to obesity’s role in aggravating Covid’s dangers. While endorsing the vaccines, Nemen seemed to downplay … Continue reading
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I’m Too Angry
I tend to be highly impatient. About 90% of the time I lose my temper, it does not serve me. How do I become appropriately patient without using more willpower. I don’t want willpower as the answer because that resource … Continue reading
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Lives on the Edge: Profiles in Sex, Love and Death
Grok says about my 2006 book: Lives on the Edge appears to be a non-fiction work by Luke Ford that profiles individuals—primarily figures from the adult entertainment industry—whose lives intersect with themes of sex, love, and death. The book is … Continue reading
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