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A Story About Growing Up Fast and Fighting for What You Love
logline, synopsis & writers statement
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Courtney Cook
001: Survival By Book
Let’s begin with a hypothesis: reading a printed book—cloth-bound or paperback, bought or borrowed—is one of the most disruptive things you can do.
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077: On Writing Letters
a letter to a soldier, Nina Stibbe's "Love, Nina," chat groups as an epistolary form, letters as evidence of human connection + links to Charlie…
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076: Leave the Raft Behind
On volcanoes, Emily Wilson's translation of the Odyssey, life-rafts, and the vast gap between dreams and reality
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The centerline of this particular weekend was survival
An excerpt from Courtney Cook's book-in-progress
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075: Maeslantkering
a day trip with friends, a Dutch storm surge barriers, and a passing reference to Marlow Granados's novel, "Happy Hour"
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074: let go, let fly, forget
cumulonimbus clouds v. small aircraft, childhood best friends, leaving a job + a post-Oscar link and a killer TBR stack + read to the end for a photo of…
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073: wrestling with the ambivalent angels of our future
AI, cyborgs, Donna Harraway, and Blade Runner
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072: without snow, there’s a neverness about the cold
thesauruses, the generosity of tagging in OpenStreetMap, sitting in the sunlight
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071: the puzzlement in the play is the point
steganography, Hamlet and Infinite Jest, plane trees in Ghent + some really distressing work meetings
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070: generations of men with tobacco in their beards squinting at the bridges of Königsberg
isomorphisms, rhodonea topology, rhetorical logic and the writings of Elif Batuman
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069: diving into the astronomical twilight of our fears
midwinter in Iceland, an insanely huge moon, Beowulf, and of course, monsters and fairies
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Survival by Book
Survival by Book
work, love, art & other life-stuff, seen through a bookish lens

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