Relational Reading
Author Sheila Heti, a long-time astrology naysayer, came across popular U.K. astrologer Jonathan Cainer last year and has been following his daily writings ever since. In conversation at The Believer,…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Today in lets-watch-this-be-constucted: the Rio Jesus! Sexual kidney is the expression I’ll be thinking of this weekend. Let’s look inside famous author’s bedrooms. Did people evolve from dolphins? No, not…
On Not Playing It Safe
“P.S. Reading is a commitment. You’ve got to disengage and pay attention. But when done right, you enter a whole ’nother world. Kind of like a great record, at least…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Thank you so much Atlas Obscura, for pointing us to the sex worker habits of penguins. Let’s look at some ugly, ugly buildings. Wired on feathered tyrannosaurs and the possibilities…
Word Choices
At The New York Times, Constance Hale contributes a series of writing lessons. Her latest entry, “Desperately Seeking Synonyms,” zeroes in on the complexities of nouns. “The best writers combine…
Celebrate Poetry
In honor of National Poetry Month, Knopf and Tumblr are teaming up for a poem-a-day celebration. You can follow and submit your own poetry here. The Knopf/Tumblr duo will host…
“Worn Stories”
“It takes me a while to recognize beauty; that’s why, as a writer, I edit so compulsively.” Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott writes about his backpack (you’ll see).
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Maybe we should turn NYC’s big box stores into a giant mountain. (Yeah! Maybe!) This fireplace is very old. We are getting closer and closer to understanding dark energy. 33…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Let’s take a moment to talk about ARCTIC MADNESS. Look, I know I’m not supposed to link to pop culture things, but I think it’s pretty cool that Neil deGrasse…
Notable San Francisco: 4/2-4/8
Happy National Poetry Month! Monday 4/2: Poet, critic, and editor of the recently released Indivisible: An Anthology of Contemporary South Asian American Poetry Pireeni Sundaralingam hosts Passion for Poetry! Poetry share at…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I’m not going to lie to you, if today was April Fools Day every link would just be this gif. Update: the brain is beautiful and amazing! I have a…
Lit-Link Round-up
The always-provocative Lidia Yuknavitch kicks off a series from the contributors to Other Voices Books’ Men Undressed: Women Writers and the Male Sexual Experience over at Meredith Resnick’s The Writer’s…