Writing, and the climate crisis, aren't what they used to be
Writing used to be a profession!
Over at The Baffler, there was a great issue recently (“The Profession That Doesn’t Exist”) exploring one of the real sadnesses of modern life: you can’t, as it turns out, really make a living as a writer. The piece by Chris Rose, a prize-winning reporter who survived Hurricane Katrina but whose career didn’t survive its traumatic aftermath, was especially painful. Then, the other day on Bluesky, Dominique Baker shared an excerpt from Laura McGrath’s Middlemen that stopped me in my tracks:
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