Archive - Survival by Book

A Story About Growing Up Fast and Fighting for What You Love

Getting into college is one thing; becoming a mother at college is quite another

Mar 26 •

February 2024

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…

Feb 11, 2024 •

January 2024

076: Leave the Raft Behind

On volcanoes, Emily Wilson's translation of the Odyssey, life-rafts, and the vast gap between dreams and reality

Jan 21, 2024 •

June 2023

The centerline of this particular weekend was survival

An excerpt from Courtney Cook's book-in-progress

Published on Spark • Jun 17, 2023

April 2023

075: Maeslantkering

a day trip with friends, a Dutch storm surge barriers, and a passing reference to Marlow Granados's novel, "Happy Hour"

Apr 29, 2023 •

March 2023

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…

Mar 19, 2023 •

February 2023

073: wrestling with the ambivalent angels of our future

AI, cyborgs, Donna Harraway, and Blade Runner

Feb 19, 2023 •

072: without snow, there’s a neverness about the cold

thesauruses, the generosity of tagging in OpenStreetMap, sitting in the sunlight

Feb 5, 2023 •

January 2023

071: the puzzlement in the play is the point

steganography, Hamlet and Infinite Jest, plane trees in Ghent + some really distressing work meetings

Jan 22, 2023 •

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

Jan 8, 2023 •

December 2022

069: diving into the astronomical twilight of our fears

midwinter in Iceland, an insanely huge moon, Beowulf, and of course, monsters and fairies

Dec 24, 2022 •

November 2022

068: On Mimesis

on the putative demise of Twitter, self-representation, Aristotle, Oscar Wilde, and why we all need to be seen + Doodle Dispatches does work emoji and a…

Nov 20, 2022

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