Not only are unpaid internships exploitative, they're one of the main forces keeping publishing in this country a primary white middle-class industry, which has a direct knock-on effect on what gets published and how.

Not only are unpaid internships exploitative, they're one of the main forces keeping publishing in this country a primary white middle-class industry, which has a direct knock-on effect on what gets published and how.

Instead of fearing what might happen if I failed, I should be excited about what could happen if I succeeded!

Flattery is a lie covered in a bed of flowery words.

But there's also a strong emotional core to counterbalance the experimentalism, with some incredibly moving passages around the narrator's relationship with her (also female) German teacher. It's beautiful.

What do you call love, then?" Someone I can't live without.

Happy people look young. You’re really afraid of getting older, aren’t you? You should only be afraid of getting less happy.