“Should I go to Grad School?: An Interview With Sheila Heti” by Jessica Loudis, The New Yorker
After what seems like a thousand and one pieces about why you should or should not go to graduate school (many of them with penned by folks with MFAs), this excerpt from the anthology Should I Go to Grad School features Sheila Heti explaining her reasons for not continuing college, and instead just experiencing things and meeting people as her education.
“Scenes from the New York Tombstone Trade” by Kyle Chayka, The Awl
It’s incredibly tough to go wrong with a piece that includes the sentence, “Vincent Carbone didn’t set out to be in a third-generation death salesman.”
Jennifer Weiner has written before that her work hasn’t benefited from the close reading that some authors enjoy. Laura Miller took up the challenge.
“Secret Libraries of New York” by Allison Meier, Atlas Obscura
This one is a bit of a no-brainer.
“The Tortured Rise of the All-American Bro” by Jared Keller, Pacific Standard
The title obviously grabs you. This piece could be a set of GIFs or another Vice takedown, but instead, Jared Keller attempts to change our perception of what the “bro” is. Does he succeed? Read the piece (and our own Tom Hawking’s response to it).