The Weekender: Go for a Walk
Three stories, perfectly packed for your weekend. Today's edition: essays from Kurt Vonnegut, Joan Didion and Henry David Thoreau.
Meet The Weekender, a weekend digest that highlights just three reads from the week and why they’re worth your time.
I became rather depressed this week reading the news.
If you’re in America, your choice of articles and current events alternates between antisemitism and violent protests on college campuses to a U.S. Air Force Officer lighting himself on fire in front of the Israeli embassy, and then being compared to a Christian martyr in Time.
So to hell with all that.
There are still so many good pieces of literature to read that don’t capitalize on the outrage of the moment. That are funny, charming, witty, sardonic—like our first essay today from Kurt Vonnegut. That challenge you personally—like our second essay from Joan Didion. That inspire you to get up off your ass and go for a walk—like our third essay from Thoreau.
Pick up a dictionary, reflect, go for a walk. Welcome to The Weekender 🤙
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