James McWilliams

@the_pitchfork

Writer. Runner. Reader. Plant eater. Coffee snob. Impending recovering academic.

Austin, Texas
Joined October 2013

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  1. Why do people think the cabin of an airplane is a private office?

  2. I keep seeing signs that young people are reading more seriously. Lovely pieces like this encourage me.

  3. "What is your best productivity tip?" "Never, ever get in fights on the Internet."

  4. Grading hard copies of student essays with a 602 Palomino Blackwing and keep fighting the impulse to include an emoticon.

  5. On missing, and never knowing, Donald Barthelme.

  6. "We share a rich emotional life with our animal brethren because emotions helped us all survive in a hostile world."

  7. If you agree wholly with a man, he merely thinks you're pleasant but weak. WA1919

  8. The spread of US slavery, in one haunting map

  9. “Losing your virginity on your year abroad is not worthy of a memoir.” –Richard Abate

  10. Spring 2016 issue: "What do we owe one another as entrepreneurs and consumers?"

  11. Badly skinned my elbow yesterday. Do you have any idea how much you need that thing to sit at a desk and read?

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