Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I hope all our Brooklyn friends are enjoying the pop-up beach and pool. Wired looks at the great science books (so you don’t have to). NASA is ready to move…
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A Few Other Saturday Links
It’s too hot to write much. Days like this are better for reading, and I have some eighty-year-old love letters calling my name. I can’t offer you those, but here…
Richard Brautigan’s Poems On Seed Packets
I have been trying, and mostly failing, to grow wildflowers in my rocky, slug-filled backyard here in Queens. I am not a gardener; I’m indifferent to everything below cats on…
Who’s having a good time?
Sarah Woolley takes a closer look at boundary-pushing on film, and articulates why she winces through Hollywood sex scenes and not porn. “…Being mindful of what media we consume, in…
United Books of America
The Library of Congress has put together a provocative list of 88 Books That Shaped America. (Happy belated 4th!) The LOC is also ready for nominations on what to add…
Sport v. Human Rights
Eurozine’s Mihir Bose lays out the development of modern athletics in connection with human rights, citing the political and ethical pressures involved in not-so-nice countries hosting major sports events. He…
“Make Sure You Build the Bridge”
“In the end nothing matters but the work. You can’t control how it’s taken, and the act of telling a story always involves a gap. Sometimes confusion is the risk of…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Why aren’t we talking to dolphins yet? Take it easy dudes, San Diego set off all of their fireworks at once this year. 100+ years of San Fermin bull running…
“The stuff we write has to matter, and I’m always pushing to the core, the heart of that”
The 99 Percent interviews Cheryl Strayed in anticipation of her soon-to-be released collection of Dear Sugar columns, Tiny Beautiful Things. The author discusses Sugar’s origin story, writing as a means…
WAL-MART-TURNED-LIBRARY
The Los Angeles Times details a former Wal-Mart that has been converted into the “largest single-story library in the country.” The McAllen Public Library, located in a Texan town right…
Aesop Rock Returns
“…For whatever reason, making shit always seemed way, way, way more important and interesting to me than just about anything else one could do. Eventually the creativity switched focus from…
Science Update: Higgs Boson
First things first–Don’t call it the God Particle, even if you are making a joke about about the particle going to church. Don’t understand the big deal? Don’t sweat it–you’re…