Bidisha's Beyond The Wall: Writing A Path Through Palestine is published by University of Chicago Press.
She discusses Palestine with critic and broadcaster Bidisha (left), who toured the West Bank as a reporter in spring 2011 and whose book Beyond the Wall: Writing a Path Through Palestine is an unflinching portrait of life in the West Bank today.
"In the Studio" rolls on this week by hosting an ex-management consultant who grew tired of that career path, wrote a book about how to prepare for and perform well during case-style interviews, self-published the work and started to make money from those sales proceeds, and eventually ended up in YC to help build out his new content-publishing business, Hyperink.
In a way, writing maps a path out of the self.
In one study, college students were instructed to write down a path toward achieving their future goals.
"It's one thing to remember your friend's birthday because you took him out a decade ago for his drunken 21st birthday debauch," Plotz writes, applauding a path to memory that requires 10 years and possibly the psychic penetration of a boozy blackout.
For each edge in T we know that can be written as a path using.
It was all about the written word, a path to another kind of freedom -- through diaries, correspondence, notebooks, journals, pen and paper, and story-telling.
TODAY'S recommended economics writing: A path is sought for states to escape their debt burdens (New York Times) How I screwed Yasser Arafat out of $2m (The Altucher Confidential) The deficit we want (Economix) Science closes in on the reason rich people are jerks (Big Think) The phantom 15 million (National Journal) The real cost of Chinese NPLs (Michael Pettis).
A month ago, our own Alexia Tsotsis wrote that Path was raising a Series B of between $25 million and $30 million at a $250 million valuation.
