Ann Friedman - Every now and then I fall apart

There's a lot of good reading this week, so let's get straight on to the links.

Rejection is an art, and I am not surprised to learn that Toni Morrison excelled at it. Melina Moe also highlights this gem from the Morrion archive: "We don’t need any more writers as solitary heroes. We need a heroic writers movement—assertive, militant, pugnacious."

A radical idea from Samia Madwar: Maybe we shouldn’t accept misery at work as being normal.

"There’s simply nothing left in Gaza for Israel to destroy, and nowhere left for its military to go." Dylan Saba on the coming aid wars. Jennifer Lynn Kelley on the limits of witnessing. And a poem by Samer Abu Hawwash.

The PostSecret project, Meg Bernhard writes, revealed both hidden truths and the limits of limitless disclosure. 

"It became apparent to me during my grandmother's last days, that our choice to rest is not only stolen from us in life," writes Trey Washington, "but also in where and how we die."

Oliver Milman on the rise of the bee bandits. Teresa Carr on the drama of trying to classify all life on Earth. And Sarah DeWeerdt on "outdoor days" as a new type of climate forecast.

"Et tu, Laura Ingalls Wilder?" Autumn Fourkiller on reading Americana as a Native kid. 

Footage of a total solar eclipse from 1900, and a reading of Annie Dillard's god-tier essay on the eclipse from 1983. Chloe Aftel's photos of caregivers. And Television Delivers People, a 7-minute video by Richard Serra and Carlota Fay Schoolman about pop culture as a control tactic and social construct.

A man. A 22-ton John Deere excavator. A dance of discovery.

Somehow related: "That tooth is way too jazzy!"

"a sincere thank you for this newsletter" -Kevin. And sincere thanks for reading!