ERIN L. MILLER

People with English degrees are often labeled as pretentious know-it-alls, verbose bookworms prone to whimsy and daydream, introverts able only to communicate through the written word. And maybe that’s because most of these markers hold some truth. While it’s been seven years since I got my English degree, it still feels like I hold a lot of residuals from a very impressionable time in my life. It was during these years I was reading Baldwin and Nabokov and Faulkner—all write

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A writer voicing an argument for writers might seem a bit—gauche? As a writer, though, it’s something I think about a lot. In an age that seems to increasingly devalue writing as content forms like photo and video take front stage, the ol’ dependable written word seems to have been all but forgotten. Different forms of content go through different periods of popularity. What we tend to forget during these times is that each one is integral. Words are no exception. 1. Writers