If you work hard, and become successful, it does not necessarily mean you are successful because you worked hard, just as if you are tall with long hair it doesn’t mean you would be a midget if you were bald.
The brainchild of Jeff Sharlet, a journalist and author who teaches creative nonfiction at Dartmouth College, and Kiera Feldman, a Brooklyn-based journalist, Occupy Writers currently features original writing by Lemony Snicket—above is the first of “Thirteen Observations made by Lemony Snicket while watching Occupy Wall Street from a Discreet Distance”—as well as numerous other writers, including Francine Prose, D.A. Powell, Duncan Murrell, Anne Waldman, Danica Novgorodoff and Michael Voll, Maureen Miller, Daphne Carr, Alice Walker, Paula Z. Segal, John McManus, David Hollander, Blair Braverman, Scott Sparling, Joshua Cohen, Larry Heinemann, Sara Paretsky, Judith Butler, Sarah Schulman, Ann Neumann, Eileen Myles, Amirah Mizrahi, Jerry Stahl, Ursula K. Le Guin, Jorie Graham, Craig Clevenger, Nathan Schneider, Francesca Lia Block, Alfred Corn, Cara Hoffman, Dana Spiotta, JoAnn Wypijewski, Matthew Zapruder, Vanessa Huang, Jonathan Lethem, Jen Hirt, George Lakoff, Kevin Thomas, Monica Wendel, Margo Berdeshevsky, Ed Madden, Alma Alexander, Giovanni Arduino, Kiera Feldman, and Melvin Jules Bukiet. Follow Occupy Writers on twitter.
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