This is the latest in an occasional series called Writing Today, where I write about writing and media and publishing and the writing life in the 2020s. I was recently on the Changed My Mind podcast talking big think education stuff. There's a certain image of the 2010s that I can't shake, though like most of my images these days what I'm picturing is bleary and indistinct.
There's a certain image of the 2010s that I can't shake, though like most of my images these days what I'm picturing is bleary and indistinct. I'm walking around in New York back when I first moved there in the middle of last decade, kicking around, and I come across something like an American Apparel billboard in lower Manhattan, maybe Chelsea, and the billboard is all muted tones and cruel cheekbones, barely hiding its contempt for all of us down on the street.