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Natasha Joukovsky
Personal blog · joukovsky.substack.comculturewriting
Natasha Joukovsky writes quite useless, a personal blog at joukovsky.substack.com about culture and writing. Since 2022, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-19, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
Only one comment, on the essay "Not Another MFA Essay", which concerns MFA (Master of Fine Arts) writing programmes. The comment is about clarity of the writing, not its argument.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
deep thoughts on art, desire, and superficiality. Click to read quite useless, by a. natasha joukovsky,
What Hacker News says?
Given that the author is presumably a writer, please, please, please! For love of all that is holy, when you're using an acronym, please write it out in full, followed by the acronym in brackets, the first time you use it! I've rewritten the first sentence of this article to help: > Master of Fine Arts (MFA) essays: there are so many of them. I spent far too long figuring that MFA in this article stood for "Master o…
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