Remind me to write about what I learned from cleaning hotel rooms and how that relates to…

For Orlean, this concrete thing is ironing. Sheets and pillowcases and sleeves can be ironed to a kind of perfection that Orlean says she and no one else is ever able to achieve with the written word. I love Orlean’s (to my eyes) perfect books and essays, but I can begrudging agree that for the mos…
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Remind me to write about what I learned from cleaning hotel rooms and how that relates to writing/editing.
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Written by Michelle Legro3.2K Followers
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Deputy Editor, GEN. Previously an editor for Topic, Longreads, The New Republic, and Lapham’s Quarterly. gen.medium.com
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