I feel rooted in my writing. The books I will write are mapped like a constellation I can see when I close my eyes at night. The will to write has oriented me for as long as I can remember.
I have felt calmer and more creative in the measure that I have quit social media platforms and abandoned the tyrants of tech, stated what I want, and said “no.” I enjoyed reading Hannah Yoon’s newsletter, “No goals for this year.” In it, she wrote, “I don’t want to be a machine, limited by what I think I should be doing and what I’m expected to accomplish.”
Tech men routines have swept our culture, creating a New Year’s resolutions frenzy for 4 am workouts, 5 am ice baths, and 178 vitamins. How boring it must be to be a machine, to treat life as something to hack.
Like all years, the new year is for staying strange, embracing yourself, and creating the wild, ephemeral things of dreams.
Alice
NEWS & EVENTS
Jan. 8 at 6 pm EST: Register for the Overseas Press Club Book Night: 'Life and Death of the American Worker,' moderated by editor Yaffa Fredrick
Jan 26: I will present my book at the Kentucky Conservation Committee Legislative Summit in Frankfort, KY
Jan 29: Porchlight Awards in NYC, my book was longlisted in the business book category
March 3: Keynote address at the Spring Arts & Culture Festival 2025 in Bentonville, AR
March 5-April 2: The Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center Residency
April 9: The Institute for Public Knowledge at NYU
April 19-20: Unbound Book Festival in Columbia, MO
May 6: Lukas Awards Ceremony in NYC
My book LIFE AND DEATH OF THE AMERICAN WORKER: The Immigrants Taking on America’s Largest Meatpacking Company is OUT NOW
"A startling glimpse into the meatpacking industry's abuse of undocumented and incarcerated workers." --The New York Times Book Review
I am so with you re: these sentiments.
Thank you , Alice. Thanks for the inspiring words. By all means, stay strange!