Join 📚 Mela's Highlights
A batch of the best highlights from what Mela's read, .
Das ist auch der Grund, warum wir das in den allermeisten Fällen nur anonym machen. Einmal Whistleblower mit einem Namen in der Presse und du kannst es dir in die Haare schmieren einen Job zu finden. Da interessiert dann auch keinen mehr der eigene Pflegenotstand im Haus.
Pflexit – SchwesterUnbequem
schwesterunbequem.com
‘I’m not going to do anything else.’ ” Or as she began her brilliant story “How to Become a Writer,” which by now should be required reading for anyone entering an MFA program, “First, try to be something, anything, else.” If the voices keep calling, if the itch remains, no matter how punishing the work or inhospitable the world, then you must persevere.
The Forest for the Trees
Betsy Lerner
IN BERLIN, ON 10 May 1933, a bonfire was held on Unter den Linden, the capital’s most important thoroughfare. It was a site of great symbolic resonance: opposite the university and adjacent to St Hedwig’s Cathedral, the Berlin State Opera House, the Royal Palace and Karl Friedrich Schinkel’s beautiful war memorial. Watched by a cheering crowd of almost forty thousand a group of students ceremonially marched up to the bonfire carrying the bust of a Jewish intellectual, Magnus Hirschfeld (founder of the groundbreaking Institute of Sexual Sciences). Chanting the ‘Feuersprüche’, a series of fire incantations, they threw the bust on top of thousands of volumes from the institute’s library, which had joined books by Jewish and other ‘un-German’ writers (gays and communists prominent among them) that had been seized from bookshops and libraries. Around the fire stood rows of young men in Nazi uniforms giving the Heil Hitler salute. The students were keen to curry favour with the new government and this book-burning was a carefully planned publicity stunt.
Burning the Books
Richard Ovenden
...catch up on these, and many more highlights
Readwise