Stephen Marche explore les questions éthiques et philosophiques profondes de la vie contemporaine. Son écriture est reconnue pour ses analyses pénétrantes de la nature humaine et des forces sociétales qui nous façonnent. Marche examine les intersections complexes entre la technologie, la culture et notre propre identité. Ses œuvres invitent les lecteurs à réfléchir sur leurs propres convictions et sur le monde qui les entoure.
Drawing on sophisticated predictive models and nearly two hundred interviews with experts, a journalist plainly breaks down the looming threats to the United States, in this must-read for anyone concerned about the future of its people, its land, and its government.
On a small two-lane bridge in a rural county that resents the federal government, the US Army employs lethal force to end a standoff with hard-right militias. Meanwhile, in an ordinary diner, a disaffected young man with a handgun targets the American president during an impromptu photo-op, resulting in a bullet that divides the hyper-partisan nation into mourners and revelers. In New York City, a category 2 hurricane submerges neighborhoods, creating millions of refugees overnight, following a devastating financial crash and years of droughts, pushing America toward ruin. These scenarios represent just three of five potential triggers for chaos in the United States. Drawing on predictive models and nearly two hundred expert interviews, journalist Stephen Marche forecasts a terrifying future collapse that many prefer to ignore. He has consulted soldiers and counter-insurgency experts to understand what it would take to control the U.S. population, revealing that battle plans for a potential civil war have already been drafted—not by fiction writers, but by military colonels.
The narrative centers on Mikey Ricci, a disillusioned political operative, and Martha Kass, the tip supervisor for the New York Times. In 2023, Ricci manages a third-party candidate with a refreshing centrist platform, challenging the entrenched political landscape shaped by the 2016 and 2020 elections. As they confront the overwhelming influence of major parties, media, and dark money, the candidate's authentic message begins to resonate with the public, highlighting the struggle for genuine political change in America.
Writing is, and always will be, an act defined by failure. The best plan is to just get used to it. Failure is a topic discussed in every creative writing department in the world, but this is the book every beginning writer should have on their shelf to prepare them--which is to say, to console them in their misery. Less a guide to writing and more a guide to how to simply keep on going, On Writing and Failure: Or, On the Peculiar Perseverance Required to Endure the Life of a Writer describes the defining role played by rejection in literary endeavors and contemplates failure as the essence of the writer's life. Along with his own history of rejection, Marche offers an historical framework--from Ovid's exile and Dostoevsky's mock execution to more contemporary tribulations--through which to consider rejection, and addresses the impact of the widespread decline of humanism on the twenty-first century writing life.
Failure is the body of a writer's life. Success is only ever an attire.
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