Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Important: short stories are good for your brain! Blah blah Soviet design blah blah blah children’s illustration blah blah pop-up blah blah blah link. Let us now discuss inflatable architecture…
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The First Annual Pygmalion Literary Festival
Have you made your summer plans yet? Well add Champaign-Urbana, Illinois to the list on September 27th and 28th for the Pygmalion Literary Festival, happening for the first time alongside…
Get Loud with Quiet Lightning
The Rumpus is teaming up with San Francisco nonprofit Quiet Lightning to present a live literary mix tape, and we want you to join us! Submit a piece less than…
At Least They’re Reading…
“You has boobie why not me” Such are the pearls of wisdom children bequeath to future readers in the pages of library books. Book Riot has more examples of defacement…
Magical Vanishing Google Results
When Graeme Wood saw an ultra-wealthy college classmate’s name popping up on weird, perfunctory websites, he suspected something was up. After some diligent sleuthing, he discovered he was right—the classmate…
From Computer Geek to Children’s Poet Laureate
Children’s poetry is typically not more than one page or two pages long. And yet, within that one or two pages, kids can get a really strong positive emotional response…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Photos of the Second Avenue Subway construction are my favorite things today. Manhattan’s payphone graveyard is pretty cool too. Behold the Fiji cannibal fork. It is time to put backpacks…
Highbrow Fanfic: It Should Be A Thing
If a book is any good, there is usually a supporting character living inside of it that you’d like to learn more about. Maybe it’s the dialogue they provide, their juicy…
Where App Meets Litmag
Here’s an interesting way to consume new short fiction: Connu, a sort of cross between an app and a litmag, will send you one short story every weekday. The stories…
This Post Is Just To Say
Jezebel has collected several Twitter parodies of William Carlos Williams’s famous poem about plums and a lot of them are pretty funny
An Unconventional Approach to Adapting Gatsby
Assuming Baz Luhrmann’s glitzy adaptation doesn’t stick any better than the ones from 1926, 1949, and 1974, why don’t we have a definitive movie version of The Great Gatsby? At Critics At…
New York through Jack Kerouac’s Eyes
Maria Popova from Brain Pickings takes a look at a chapter titled “New York Scenes” from Kerouac’s 1960 book, Lonesome Traveler. According to Popova, the chapter is “a kind of narrative emotional…