#Thank #You #For Reading

2014, in review.

#Thank # You # For #Reading

2014 was the year that it happened, and yes, it means the formation of my #personalbrand. I’ve gone from “Jazmine Hughes who?” to “Jazmine Hughes, that girl,” with a bevy of…

Year in Review: Writing on Not Writing

I stopped writing in 2014, by choice and by chance. My on-and-off relationship with The Wire, The Atlantic’s ill-fated news operation, finally ended at the beginning of the summer after four-odd years. I moved home from Toronto and planned to give myself what…

The Age of ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

My favorite things I wrote in 2014. Also feelings!

I. Emails

The best things I wrote this year were emails.

David Grossman: My Year in Review

[This is by David Grossman, a great freelance writer. He submitted to the collection via email, which you can too — chaykak@gmail.com.]

The Year in Nathan Deuel, 2014 Edition

It was a crazy year. We left Beirut. Before 2013 ended, I was teaching at Deep Springs College. Then we moved to Los Angeles and settled into a tiny cottage in Venice Beach. The first months of 2014, I was either hammering on things at the house or preparing for…

Aaron Gilbreath’s Year in Writing

Jazz, Japanese automats, and Haruki Murakami

2014: My Year in #Content

The consensus view on 2014 is that it was bad, or in the parlance of our times, a “garbage year.” But bad news makes for good #content.

I started out the year as a newly minted (and terrified) freelancer, covering a number of topics — the millennial…