For all the logophiles out there—the Awl published an essay on how wartime words are integrated into our vernacular. Just as technological advances happened in the context of war, language…
Anybody feeling the “encroachment of the buzz,” the multitudinous distractions that prevent us from concentrating on a book? Johann Hari is offering survival tips for these distracting times. “A book…
In No Bad News for the King, Emma Larkin (a pseudonym for an American journalist in Asia) untangles the convoluted story of contemporary Burma and the 2008 cyclone that killed…
In an interview with the Financial Times, the seasoned 78 year-old author, Philip Roth, has decidedly sworn off reading fiction by way of saying, “‘I’ve stopped reading fiction. I don’t…
It is about time we started advertising to monkeys. Need to get married but short on funds? The AutoWed machine costs a mere dollar to use. Evidently the Olympics own…
Click image to enlarge: … Written by Cheryl Strayed. For more information on collaborative All Over Coffee strips, go to allovercoffee.com. … All Over Coffee is published in the Sunday…
From a place bubbling over with intellectual stimulation and social change comes a lot of good literature. The Millions is spotlighting six Egyptian authors that you should know about, inspired…
Seems like big kids and parents alike are getting a lot of writing mileage out of Go the Fuck to Sleep, Adam Mansbach’s playfully honest plea to his daughter to…
This week in San Francisco, NYC mags BOMB and Guernica want to meet you (and maybe make-out with you), the Top of the Mark toasts movies of SF and Neko…