Today the internet’s got some literary gold to offer you! Joan Didion’s essay, “Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream,” one of the essays from Slouching Towards Bethlehem, is online! (via…
Whatcha doin tonight, Brooklyn? There’s no better way to celebrate the end of the storm than going to this Believer Magazine event at Public Assembly. It’s a celebration of the…
Yvonne is the craftiest farm animal to evade slaughter since Wilbur. After this six-year old German cow ran away en route to the slaughterhouse back in May, she’s been on…
Headed by the University of Vermont’s Isabel Klouman, a team of researchers did a massive language study that revealed an optimistic tendency of the English language—there are more positive words…
Children’s books are teaching all kinds of lessons and not just the morals-heavy, value-driven ones that are meant to stave off latent delinquency. Read between the lines of children’s lit…
Do you have this? “Ecidivism: n. the habit of closing a browser tab to go do something else, only to absentmindedly return to the website you just left, which is…
Technology and higher education have been enjoying a symbiotic relationship in recent years. Apple’s creative visions have been coming to life and flourishing on academic platforms, but now that Steve…
I’ve been all about Soviet-era design lately, this is a fact. Skinks wish they could do it with way more things than they can. Sea energy harvesters are pretty fascinating.…
This week in San Francisco… Monday August 29: Bill Berkson and Duncan McNaughton are reading from their most recent volumes tonight at Bird and Beckett Books in Glen Park. Both…
William Faulkner secured the first Writers-in-Residence position at UVA and held the position for two terms. This site has sonically preserved Faulkner’s residency in the form of these recordings. He…
Errol Morris, the truth-seeker/director of the documentary The Thin Blue Line and The Fog of War is once again having us question the facts. His collection of essays, Believing is…