2015
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
So many space photos. Thank you for everything prehistoric beaver. A brief history of owls. News item: volcanoes control everything basically. Let us now discuss the drinking habits of Antarctic scientists.
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The Last Book I Loved: Station Eleven
In the distance between me and the story, I can see all the ways I would have to change without technology, because of all the ways technology has already changed me.
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Your Brain on History
For the Los Angeles Review of Books, Larry S. McGrath writes about the growing role of neuroscience in writing new historical narratives. McGrath frames this discussion in a review of historian Lynn Hunt’s Writing History in the Global Era, looking…
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Ferrante in Fragments
Guernica has an excerpt from an upcoming collection of letters and interviews by Elena Ferrante, Fragments: On Writing, Reading, and Absence, featuring some beautiful prose on the origins of writing, some slant-eyed answers to questions of identity, and brutal melancholia brought…
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Have You Met the Huckster?
At Notches, a peer-reviewed blog on history and sexuality, Robert J. Gamble explores the figure of the 19th century female huckster as well as the middle-class anxieties that slandered and vilified them.
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New Album for Lauryn Hill?
In a recent article about Ms. Lauryn Hill’s career, the artist’s producer Phil Nicolo told The Fader that he’s been working with her in the studio toward the completion of a long-awaited new album. Read the full article here, along…
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About That Kenny Goldsmith Piece in the New Yorker
We ran a blog post earlier today about Alec Wilkinson’s pretty crap piece about Kenny Goldsmith in the New Yorker which we characterized as “refreshingly even-handed.” That description is only accurate if you define even-handed as a several-thousand word tongue-bath in the…
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Read Off Library Fines
A Minnesota library has a unique new way for teenagers to pay off their late fines: reading. The St. Paul Public Library’s Read Down gives teenagers $1 off their fines for every fifteen minutes of reading.
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The Weight of the Future, the Emptiness of the Past
I am reminded of how we know something is there, sometimes, by its absence, how dark matter is said to exist because of so much missing mass.
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Next Letter for Kids: Nancy Cavanaugh
We’re sending our next Letter for Kids from Nancy Cavanaugh! Nancy takes us on a field trip to the Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia—and includes color photos of the swamp so you’ll feel like you’ve actually been there! Don’t miss out on…
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How to Become
Mensah Demary, Associate Web Editor for the new and exciting online literary outlet Catapult, shares his story of how he got to be where he is through a series of hilarious and depressing montages, with an overarching theme worth internalizing: “I don’t…
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Notable Los Angeles: 10/5–10/11
Monday 10/5: It’s the first Monday of the month, which means you have your chance to strut your literary stuff in the Speakeasy/Open Mic Night! Sign-ups begin at 7:45 p.m., readings begin at 8 p.m. at The Last Bookstore. Tuesday…