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September 8, 2017 | John Burbank Amazon is planning to open a second headquarters (in Amazon speak, HQ 2 ), in another city – not in Seattle. I worry for the city that next falls victim to Amazon, but this is a good thing for Seattle. We as a city are struggling to catch up to Amazon’s expansion and…

Sep 29, 2017

Guilty lives: The authenticity trap at work | ephemera

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Introduction An emerging trend in contemporary western culture is the profound guilt we are supposed to experience given the ‘false’ and unhealthy lives we lead. This profound guilt, in part at least, stems from the feeling that we are somehow inauthentic. The desire to assuage our guilt by groping…

Sep 19, 2017

Should White Men Stop Writing? A Q&A With Elisa Gabbert

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Let the work flow Photo: PeopleImages/Getty Images If you want to get a distilled version of the present moment in American politics, it ’ s not a bad idea to listen to what poets are saying, believe it or not. Right now, of course, a lot of the arguments are about identity. Elisa Gabbert is a poet…

Sep 16, 2017