The Despair of the Young - by Mary Gaitskill - Out of It
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...and the madness of academia
The Despair of the Young ...and the madness of academia Mary Gaitskill Apr 14, 2023 1,980 198 277 Share This is very long for SStack. I didn’t write it originally for SStack, though I was certainly thinking about it—the despair of the young—when I started this project. My thoughts eventually took the form of this essay about a weird, wrenching experience I had teaching last year (which will likely be, by my choice, my last teaching experience). The essay starts out like a pretty standard complaint about academic fusspottery—the attempt to create a feeling of safety and inclusion with censoriou
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