In my Slate piece “The First-Person ... s first-person online economy: the way the Internet incentivizes the publication of quick-turnaround, sensational, news-pegged essays in ways that can ...

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Of course, the essay went viral. First-person writing has long been the Internet’s native voice. As long as there have been bloggers, there have been young people scraping their interior lives ...

First Person is a daily personal piece submitted by readers. Have a story to tell? See our guidelines at tgam.ca/essayguide. Somewhere along the way, I made a choice not to point out the racist ...

Vox, for example, republished Hudson’s essay about being a black cop months later, when news events meant it was newly relevant to audiences. With First Person, Vox has become one of many publishers ...

These first-person essays are part of a special series leading up to the 109th running of the Indianapolis 500 on May 25 on FOX in which INDYCAR drivers penned letters about what the historic race ...

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“First-person writing should not be cheap ... missing aspects of the personal-essay Internet that the flashiest examples tended to obscure. I still think of the form as a valuable on-ramp ...

“My Life as a Little Person.” “I Still Dreamed of the Abuser I Once Thought of as My Father.” “My Startup Failed, and This Is What It Feels Like.” “The Worst Day of My Life Is Now ...