“I am the battered, coffee-stained backbone of writerly panic—the gasping pause where a thought should have ended but simply could not.”
McSweeney's"Writers have been using me long before AI. I am the punctuation equivalent of a cardigan—beloved by MFA grads, used by editors when it’s actually cold, and worn year-round by screenwriters. I am not new here. I am not novel. I’m the cigarette you keep saying you’ll quit."