

robert hamilton
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Author of CRUX- After an endless winter destroys the nation's food and energy supply, a Christian Nationalist exploits the crisis to take over America.
















BREAKING 🔴 Kim Jong-un wins North Korea’s parliamentary elections with 99.93% of the vote.



Tom Junod is a modern-day Tom Wolfe. A two-time National Magazine Award Winner with a singular voice, who's famous for long and rhythmic sentences that bend the conventions of style and punctuation. We talked about about his haunting 9/11 piece about 'The Falling Man' and his defining pieces about Obama and Fred Rogers, but everything leads up to an epic anti-AI rant at the end. Timestamps: 0:42 The art of a sentence 2:01 The Falling Man on September 11th 7:18 "Say the unsayable" 16:10 Look for contradictions 19:40 Ellipses 28:35 Lessons from Fred Rogers 40:48 Write to improve your thinking 46:14 Tom's favorite writing trick 50:11 What makes for a good ending? 54:57 Advice for young writers 1:02:58 "Writing is a tug of war of souls" 1:04:30 Tom's anti-AI rant I've shared the full conversation below. If you'd rather watch it on YouTube, or listen on Apple / Spotify, check out the reply tweets. Enjoy!
