Emily Ding · @emilydingwrites
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And here's a more personal take on, I guess, the mind that wrote these stories and that wanted to write these stories—for my newsletter . It's about, as someone put it, "the certainty of uncertainty".

movableworlds.co/p/perilsofcer

#movableworlds #edwrites #deathpenalty

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Emily Ding · @emilydingwrites
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New on my

A Q&A with a friend and former colleague Reb: on moving from Malaysia to the U.S. for a dream magazine job at the start of the pandemic, the differences in being a creative here and there, and not feeling the need to define home ❤️ But—

"Deep down I’m really just a suburban kid with a biblical name. Low-brow tastes tickle me, ugliness intrigues me, tacky aesthetics comfort me. My childhood in Subang keeps my feet firmly on earth."

movableworlds.co/p/rebeccachew

#newsletter #movableworlds

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Emily Ding · @emilydingwrites
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I also did a Q&A with the book's translator Mike Fu around the time I wrote this essay for my .

Read it here: movableworlds.co/p/14-mike-fu-

#newsletter #movableworlds #storiesofthesahara #sanmao #Travelwriting

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Emily Ding · @emilydingwrites
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, real name Chen Ping, was a Taiwanese travel writer who apparently inspired generations of young women in the Chinese-speaking world. She was born some eighty years ago today, in 1943, and on this occasion, for your Sunday reading, I’m republishing here an essay I wrote a couple of years back for Mekong Review of her collection, Stories of the —translated into English for the first time in 2019 by Mike Fu.

Read it here: movableworlds.co/p/remembering

#sanmao #sahara #movableworlds #edwrites

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Emily Ding · @emilydingwrites
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Mae, a friend, wrote a guest letter for my about coming to terms with her decision to stay in , after years imagining what her exit plan would look like.

It's a frank, moving piece, and it was a really lovely experience working with her on it: movableworlds.co/p/mabelho. Have a read ❤️

More guest letters/Q&As & personal dispatches to come. Sign up at movableworlds.co/welcome to get them in your inbox. Thank you!

#newsletter #movableworlds #malaysia

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Emily Ding · @emilydingwrites
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A new from me for to kick off the !

Instead of resolutions or anchor words, here are some fifteen quotes that I hope will guide me, and perhaps you too, through living, writing, and embracing the world in 2023, maybe even beyond. I hope you find something in here too that serves as a handhold in these challenging, but surely interesting, times.

Read it & subscribe to receive more letters like this in your inbox: movableworlds.co/p/hello2023

#newsletter #movableworlds #newyear

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Emily Ding · @emilydingwrites
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Emily Ding · @emilydingwrites
116 followers · 154 posts · Server mastodon.world

📣 I am looking to commission more guest for my newsletter this year!

(movableworlds.co) is about how we seek and tell stories to make sense of a changing world & our personal and collective place in it.

Essay examples: movableworlds.co/s/thegreataff

Please pitch me if you have an idea you'd like to explore & I'd appreciate it if you would boost this too.

For original essays of at least 1,000 words, the fee is USD150.

#essays #movableworlds #callforsubmissions #writingcommunity #SenseOfPlace

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Emily Ding · @emilydingwrites
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📣! Btw, I am looking to commission more guest for my newsletter this year.

(movableworlds.co) is about how we seek and tell stories to make sense of a changing world & our personal and collective place in it.

For original essays between 1,000 and 3,000 words, the fee is USD150.

Please pitch me if you have an idea you'd like to explore!

Examples at movableworlds.co/s/thegreataff

Guidelines at emilyding.me/writeformv

#essays #movableworlds #callforsubmissions #writingcommunity

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Emily Ding · @emilydingwrites
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on how our digital age is costing us our ability to wander, in a piece that rakes over a brief history of and reflects on ’s rambling narrator in his novel To Walk Alone in the Crowd.

Read it at newyorker.com/magazine/2021/08

More from my on and the world: movableworlds.co/p/landmarking

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#writing #exploring #alejandrochacoff #curated #readings #newsletter #movableworlds #edreads #flaneuring #antoniomunozmolina

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Emily Ding · @emilydingwrites
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Emily Ding · @emilydingwrites
112 followers · 137 posts · Server mastodon.world
Emily Ding · @emilydingwrites
112 followers · 137 posts · Server mastodon.world

Resuming this thread after the holiday season! Here's with thoughts on the usefulness of journalism and activism as an approach in looking at the world, through the art of .

Read it at issuu.com/columbiajournalismre

More from my : movableworlds.co/p/landmarking

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#jackherrera #minervacuevas #curated #readings #newsletter #movableworlds #edreads

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Emily Ding · @emilydingwrites
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Next up is "Sweet Bitter Blues" by , on her journey to find out why American Blues has a special hold over some Japanese. What resonates with me are her tentative explorations, self-consciously battling reductive distillations, testing her existing ideas against what she sees, hoping to get some measure of things right.

Read it at main.oxfordamerican.org/magazi

More from my : movableworlds.co/p/landmarking

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#amandapetrusich #curated #readings #newsletter #movableworlds #edreads

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Emily Ding · @emilydingwrites
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I also love this essay by on how you can reorient how you see the world by choosing where you live, which window you look out of—in her case, , ...

Read it at guernicamag.com/in-lagos-space

More from my : movableworlds.co/p/landmarking

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#allyngaestel #lagos #nigeria #curated #readings #movableworlds #edreads #newsletter

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Emily Ding · @emilydingwrites
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Next up is "To the Pavement" by —on navigating during the pandemic.

"Typically when I go on the road, I work from the time I wake up in the morning to the time I go to sleep, jamming days with driving, interviews, scene-gathering, unannounced stop-ins. I come home exhausted, usually, but remembering why I love what I do."

Read it in her : leahsottile.substack.com/p/3-t

More here: movableworlds.co/p/landmarking

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#newsletter #curated #readings #movableworlds #edreads #leahsottile #reporting #roadtrips

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Emily Ding · @emilydingwrites
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First up: ", , and the Creative Act" by .

A line in this piece—" of human nature are linked with pathologies of ”—encapsulates so well what I've always felt animated about that I've relied on it ever since to anchor my & my work, especially when I feel myself losing my way.

Read it here: lithub.com/writing-traveling-a

For more , read my : movableworlds.co/p/landmarking

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#movableworlds #suzannejoinson #writing #traveling #stories #places #explorations #readings #newsletter #edreads

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Emily Ding · @emilydingwrites
101 followers · 113 posts · Server mastodon.world

In my , I've been posting —increasingly digestible 🙃—of & about how we make sense of a rapidly changing and our in it & how we tell its .

To bring back some good reads from the archives, I'll drip here some pieces I recommended in all 15 issues so far about , , & .

Like them? Sign up with your email for new issues in your inbox: movableworlds.co

A thread 🧵

#newsletter #movableworlds #roundups #journalism #literature #world #place #stories #landmarkings #writing #exploring #travel #edreads

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