A post I wrote for Lucent Dreaming on dealing with rejections (I'm a pro at that by now!)
Thoughts on… Dealing with Rejection [by Jonas David]
Lucent Dreaming has Officially Launched its Debut Issue!
Some pictures from the launch! Check it out!
Last Saturday (April 28th), Lucent Dreaming officially launched its debut issue from Rabble Studio. 52 wonderful supporters and friends helped mark the beginning of our Lucent Dream. It was our first opportunity to sell our magazines, notebooks and merch, but also to talk about how Lucent Dreaming started and what it means to the team. After signing our guestbook, asking guests to tell us about their dreams, we had talks from our editors, Jannat Ahmed, Jess Beynon and Joachim Buur, as well as poetry readings from our published poets Taylor Edmonds and Poppy Jennings.
You can read more about our event from our fantastic guests Alys Jones from Creative Cardiff, and Taylor Edmonds.
For those of you who couldn’t attend our event but want to get your hands on our magazines and notebooks, visit our buying page!
What I want to read…
I've been reading Burial Rites by Hannah Kent with a book club I just started with some friends. It's much more enjoyable to read a book when you have people to discuss it with, but how can anyone ever get their friends to read the same books... if you're even fortunate enough to have friends …
The Luzhin Defense by Vladimir Nabokov
Another terrific read by Nabokov, I have yet to be disappointed by his novels. This one follows a chess player, but you don't have to know a single thing about how to play chess in order to enjoy it. It's more about the mental states, and how imagining all the possible outcomes in a game …
how ‘the customer is always right’ culture is ruining our society
Happy May Day! Workers' rights are important, and are ignored quite a bit in this capitalistic country (one of the few countries that doesn't have May Day as a day off for workers... quite ironic.) Here, it seems, even workers treat other workers like crap. And I don't think it's necessarily because they are bad …
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