2011
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Poor little guys like this totally (probably) got hit by a meteor. Way to not really be a state North Dakota. Evidently people want to talk about science as art today. OMG space-time cloak! (I’m gladly we’re staying with cloaks…
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Missing Everybody: Holden Caufield at 60
Saturday is the 60th anniversary of the publication of J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye.
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Restaurant Jobs
There’s bittersweet news on the job creation growth front—the Wall Street Journal released numbers that described the current state of hiring in this country, which revealed the growth in the food service industry, apparently one tenth of the American labor…
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Me-Focused Pop Music
Psychologists, nonfiction writers, journalists, concerned parents, and probably Jonathan Franzen, are increasingly focused on critiquing this “me”-focused generation, or the “cult of self-esteem” that shelters and coddles kids and invites a dangerous amount of first-person-based thinking. And this inward focus…
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Pump-up Poetry
How do you pump up before a game? Cheer? Chant? Talk some smack to the rival team? Or…do you read poetry? Bruno Biri, the coach of the French women’s national soccer team, finds his source of inspiration in literature, poetry…
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When Literature and Music Become One
Bringing together different artistic domains, authors merge and connect music with their words on the Book Notes series, featured on largehearted boy. Featured now is the playlist Reif Larsen created for his debut novel The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet.…
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I’m on a Boat
Fear not, the saddening disappearance of independent bookstores is being countered by literature lovers all over the globe. The Book Barge, brainchild of Sarah Henshaw, is a canal boat turned bookstore that flows leisurely on the UK’s canal network. See…
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Forget Google, Apple, etc…let’s get to the good stuff. These glasses can read your mind…kind of. So, did you see this automaton from the 16th century? An insanely creepy singing robotic mouth. Are you a media artist, hacker, Wikileaks contributor, or…
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Where I Write #13: To Walk Among Coyotes
I moved to Los Angeles a few weeks ago to house-sit for the summer. I drive a borrowed car and have a meager savings. The house is near the Hollywood sign, in the hills,
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Bill Keller on Books
Bill Keller is doling out more contentious opinions! We already found out what he thought about twitter— its consequences on our cognitive abilities and its potentially deleterious effect on the well-being of his thirteen year-old daughter. But now he is…
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Soda Series This Thursday
New Yorkers! This Thursday is doubly excellent for you because not only is it Bastille Day, it’s the next Soda Series event, a reading and conversation series. This event is featuring writers Mary Caponegro, Tim Horvath, and Gary Lutz. Where…