Short post today. I wanted to recommend a beautiful little essay that floats back up in my mind frequently, and that I reread about once a year, I think. It’s called “How to Build A Fire” by Jessie Singer, and was published in the heyday of The Hairpin. When The Hairpin was actually extant, and not what it is now, an archive that feels like a ghost town, all the buildings still standing, empty windows staring out over town squares that will never hold another festival, no matter how long those buildings wait.
Ahem.
And here’s a copy of the essay as a PDF, just in case the hairpin collapses someday. (This version actually PDF’ed wrong, I’ll fix it later. Apologies!)
[Was trawling through old posts today and saw this! Re-did the PDF, here’s the new file — IB 30 August 2023 How To Build A Fire – The Hairpin]
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