Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
“I am throwing up in my hat. I am throwing up in my hat.” Drunk texts from famous authors. In an attempt to learn more about how human babies learn…
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“There are two things you don’t throw out in France – bread and books”
The New York Times reported yesterday on the notable difference between independent bookstores in France, and their struggling American counterparts. The article describes the way in which government intervention and…
Rebirth of the Epigram
“Twitter’s formal properties bend, simultaneously, in opposite directions: toward the essential but also the superfluous, the concise but also the verbose.” n+1 gets all philosophical about the tweet.
Problem Solving: Part 1
When we talk about issues of representation, many editors say, “Where do I find writers of color?” I’d like to start to answer that question by compiling a working list…
Art as Witness
“I believe Nina Simone tried to build that gun because that night she realized what all other-ed bodies eventually realize: a gun was already at her head. She feared a…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
A 50-million-year-old turtle orgy. Turns out most people would like more meat in their antibiotics. Or fewer antibiotics in their meat. What was that book?
Lonely Art
“…Loneliness is a word — easily enough spoken or written, like death or love – but really it’s a deep sadness, which is also a force, driving so many of…
Don’t “Do” Rome
At Full Stop, Stephanie Bernhard writes about why we shouldn’t “do” cities. “To suggest that a city or site can be “done,” like dishes, the laundry, or homework, reduces said…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
“If an intelligent life form has built a spaceship, there’s the question of ‘why not make it out of stone or coral?'” Good question. Is there an alien spaceship at the…
Juneteenth
In honor of Juneteenth, The Root investigates “the blurred line of emancipation in America,” from 1883 through the present. Feministing breaks down the wording of the Emancipation Proclamation, shedding light…
Chuck Palahniuk’s “victims of his gore-filled prose”
On June 11, Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club and Choke, published Invisible Monsters Remix, a director’s cut of the novel in which “the reader is made to jump back and…
The Death (and Rebirth?) of the Book Review
Why review books? At The Awl, Jane Hu takes a historical approach to answering that question. Quoting writers from Alexander Pope to Jonathan Franzen, Hu argues that the apparently ever-progressing…