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Trained in literature and entrepreneurship, Rainey is the founder of Glasstire, the online magazine of visual art in Texas and the oldest online-only art magazine in the country. In 2019, she stepped down as publisher after over 18 years at the helm.

She is currently editing a book about the Rice Gallery and writing for magazines.

Rainey has spoken or written about arts journalism at Emory University, the USC Annenberg School, the El Paso Museum of Art, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, College Arts Association, the National Endowment for the Arts, and other places. She has also spoken about caregiving at Houston Methodist Hospital. She lives in Houston.

Trained in literature and entrepreneurship, Rainey is the founder of Glasstire, the online magazine of visual art in Texas and the oldest online-only art magazine in the country. In 2019, she stepped down as publisher after over 18 years at the helm.

She is currently editing a book about the Rice Gallery and writing for magazines.

Rainey has spoken or written about arts journalism at Emory University, the USC Annenberg School, the El Paso Museum of Art, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, College Arts Association, the National Endowment for the Arts, and other places. She has also spoken about caregiving at Houston Methodist Hospital. She lives in Houston.

Trained in literature and entrepreneurship, Rainey is the founder of Glasstire, the online magazine of visual art in Texas and the oldest online-only art magazine in the country. In 2019, she stepped down as publisher after over 18 years at the helm.

She is currently editing a book about the Rice Gallery and writing for magazines.

Rainey has spoken or written about arts journalism at Emory University, the USC Annenberg School, the El Paso Museum of Art, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, College Arts Association, the National Endowment for the Arts, and other places. She has also spoken about caregiving at Houston Methodist Hospital. She lives in Houston.

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Rainey Knudson

Nov 23, 20201 min read

I'm an Impatient Reader; You're an Impatient Reader (168 words)

I don’t think I’m alone in having lost my patience for long articles on the Internet.

I check word counts. I think, “5,000 words… hm. Do I want to spend 20 minutes reading this? Isn’t there something else I should be doing?”

Often the answer is no: there’s nothing else I should be doing, except all the things I should be doing. In this way, I can follow Internet rabbit holes for an hour or more, skimming and darting from one article to the next, not doing the things I should be doing.

As a writer, I know about crafting a thoughtful article, only to have an editor trash chunks of it. As an editor, I know how to trash.

The goal of The Impatient Reader is to take out the trash for you.

This is a series of ultra-short articles on whatever topics are on my mind. There is always an estimated reading time. There is no pressure.

It’s trash day. Time to put out the bin.

© Rainey Knudson 2020.

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