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From Kazuo Ishiguro’s Nobel acceptance speech. Stories are about one person saying to another, This is the way it feels to me? Does it feel the same to you?
Tara Westover
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Tara Westover
@tarawestover
Author of Educated, dog enthusiast.
- A little essay I wrote about resilience and social mobility and and and...
- Hey all. I've decided to publish the text of the commencement address that I gave at Northeastern, so here it be. It's titled "The Un-Instagramable Self" and it's pretty much about what you'd think (the parts of us that we don't/can't put online). tarawestover.com/commencement
- Having that delightful experience when you've eaten all the chocolates and left one, because it's coconut, and then eventually you get desperate and bite into it. And wonderfully, discover that it's not coconut, but salted caramel.
- One of the most beautiful paragraphs I've ever read. Hilary Mantel. Giving up the Ghost.
- Really grateful to @Northeastern for letting me deliver the commencement address (and sing, because, you know, why not?) to all the people in the whole world plus their parents. Congratulations graduates!
- I do not understand what is so satisfying about watching my dog sleep.
- theatlantic.com/magazine/archi… Some thoughts I had on the political divide.
- Someone was kind enough to write down something I said and put it in a broader context. The way we distribute education in this country is wildly unequal, and if we allow it to continue, we are just seeing the beginning of our political turmoil. @AdamHSays
- If I could only recommend one book this year, it would be @the_jennitaur's How To Do Nothing. Go read it. Go go go.
