Some Thoughts on Art, Suffering, and “Magnolia”

I recently found myself thinking about the debate around art and suffering, how we tend to glorify the suffering artist in a way that normalizes unhealthy behaviors and fetishizes trauma, and yet the undeniable fact that some great art has come from great personal suffering, and it's hard to imagine those works coming into being otherwise.

Inside Voices

You harlequin detectives—you with your screaming skeletons, your butchered amnesia, your dream-soaked crimes, your love-broken jails, your shame-battered kingdom;

Let’s All Agree That Everything Sucks

With the increase in unemployment benefits, some people have expressed their frustration that they're earning less from going to work (and potentially exposing themselves to the virus) than people who are unemployed.