Here at Workman, we read…a lot. When we aren’t checking travel destinations off our bucket-lists with 1,000 Places to See Before You Die, or looking up quick and easy dinner recipes in The Mom 100 Cookbook, you can find us scanning The New York Times or sites like BuzzFeed and Mashable. This week, editorial intern Rachel shares the articles we’ve been reading.
1. Tristan Walker: The Visible Man – A Fast Company profile of one of the few black entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley, a place where so-called “meritocracy” often wins out over diversity.
2. Bonfire of the Inanities – A history of the New York Times‘s style section, a.k.a. (arguably) the worst but also the best section of the newspaper.
3. Cashier, 92, Rings Up Friendships – From Megan, a senior editor, “the most important article you’ll read all week,” with the best pull quote, too: “What do you want me to do, sit and home and look at the cat?”
4. 10 Hours of Walking in NYC as a Woman – From Moira in the marketing department: “As a woman living and working in New York City, this video about street harassment hits pretty close to home.”
5. A Hollaback Response Video: Women of Color on Street Harassment – And also from Moira, “The response that Jezebel put out about week after the above video broadens the conversation in an especially important way.”
6. Why I am Teaching a Course Called “Wasting Time on the Internet” – Justin’s pick, from Kenneth Goldsmith at The New Yorker: “Come January, fifteen University of Pennsylvania creative-writing students and I will sit silently in a room with nothing more than our devices and a Wi-Fi connection, for three hours a week, in a course called ‘Wasting Time on the Internet.'”
7. How to Make Thanksgiving Better, According to a Bunch of 8-Year-Olds – Also recommended by Justin, from Bon Appetit: “Everyone sits at the same table in my family, but the grown-ups ask all these questions: ‘How were your reports? Do you like writing? Do you like science?’ Sometimes I’m like, ugh, and sometimes I just don’t answer. Then they leave me alone.”
8. Joshua Ferris is My Nemesis – From Sarah B., editorial assistant: “Earlier this year, I read Joshua Ferris’ third novel, To Rise Again At a Decent Hour, and afterwards, I somehow Googled my way to this Salon article from 2012. In it, a self-professed ‘nemesis’ from UC Irvine goes full-on middle school and bashes Ferris for being a suck-up, a golden boy, and a misogynist (okay, she infers that last one, but still). Bonus: includes the Ferris-penned phrase ‘the rusted anchor of my loins.'”
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