Archive - Marianne Janack's reading recommendations & some philosophy

Writing and Remembering

published in Write or Die magazine

Jul 26 •

Marianne Janack

Freedom, free will, and being-in-the-world

Photo by Sivani Bandaru on Unsplash

Jul 22 •

Marianne Janack

June 2025

May 2025

What We Talk About When We Talk About Semantic Disputes

In my philosophy and literature course, we were talking about the difference between the Writer and the Author.

May 23 •

Marianne Janack

April 2025

from The Montréal Review

Apr 23 •

Marianne Janack

The Smells of Spring

It’s 65 degrees here today, and I’ve been sneezing all day.

Apr 14 •

Marianne Janack

March 2025

Intermezzo: Grief, chess, Wittgenstein, and love

Sally Rooney has been heralded as the author who speaks for and to millennials, and she is credited with being able to bring together the conditions of…

Mar 21 •

Marianne Janack

February 2025

The Empusium: Highbrow Horror, Tuberculosis, Gender, and History

The new year began with a list of things to be afraid of--alcohol, loneliness, fluoride, scams, ultra-processed food, echo chambers, Elon Musk with…

Feb 14 •

Marianne Janack

November 2024

Humans and animals

Companion animal; pet; adoptee; opportunistic nestling; mouse hunting machine: we called him Sidney. We had to have him euthanized last week.Marianne…

Nov 24, 2024 •

Marianne Janack

October 2024

Machines Like Us

Photo by Maxim Tajer on Unsplash

Oct 13, 2024 •

Marianne Janack

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