Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
This week in bad-ass: jetpacking over the Swiss Alps. Context-free patent art is the best thing today. How do you single out friends’ voices in a crowded party? Science is…
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Poetry and Politics
The Paris Review shares an interview with Pablo Neruda conducted in 1970 just before the poet withdrew his presidential candidacy. “I have never renounced the expression of loneliness, of anguish,…
Stories We Tell
Molly Boyle writes about how murder ballads helped in her efforts to find the “sublimity of survival” after an attempted rape. “The stories we tell ourselves happen often to be…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
On the regional dialects of certain hyraxes. Everyone needs some undersea photography now and then. “In 1950, an elephant fell out of a monorail in Germany.” Let’s all make some…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
What does space sound like? Life goal of the day: visit Deception Island. Computer as swarm of crabs. “Astrologers Predict 1929 Will Be Year of Prosperity.” Here are all the…
Make-or-Break
Constance Hale’s New York Times series of writing lessons continues with wisdom on verbs. “Verbs kick-start sentences: Without them, words would simply cluster together in suspended animation. We often call…
Words of Our Lives
“The main thing about something gruckimish is that gruck (the noun form) is always the unintended byproduct of the creator’s intention. Things that are supposed to be funny are rarely…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Today in the-answer-to-your-problems-are-slides: they help you get to class on time! Here are some 19th century visual puns (classy). Evidently the time has come for cyborg plants. Incidentally, maybe the…
Sunday Features
Did you swing by yesterday? If not, here’s what you may have missed: Judy Bolton-Fasman’s “A Jubana Mother Gives Advice to her Tragically Gringa Daughter” and Alison Espach’s “Things I…
“Miss Lora”
“It was 1985. You were sixteen years old and you were messed up and alone like a motherfucker. You were also convinced—like totally, utterly convinced—that the world was going to…