Sympathy for the Library-Fine Dodger
You can’t always get what you want…and if what Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones wants is forgiveness for decades-old library fines, then he’s out of luck.
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From Alcoholic to Diet Cokehead
In an interview with addiction website The Fix, reprinted at Salon, memoirist and poet Mary Karr discusses getting clean, flouting rules, and how sobriety shaped her relationship with David Foster Wallace.…
Send A Letter Commemorating Irish Letters
What a cool way to celebrate Ireland’s storytelling tradition: a new Irish stamp features the text of an entire short-short by 17-year-old Dubliner Eoin Moore. Moore’s piece, about how “[t]he…
Self-published micro-fictions by Matthew Sharpe
On Monday, the novelist Matthew Sharpe announced that once a week for the next twelve weeks he will write a very short story to post on his blogspot as an…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
If you are dreaming a lot about animals, you might get Alzheimers (and other signs). Maybe aliens are just energy conscious. Maybe a lot of things. So it’s settled then:…
Only the Lonely (Have Serious Health Problems)
Loneliness is more than just a feeling, according to an article in the New Republic. It’s a biological process that activates your physical pain responses and trashes your immune system. Here’s…
Soyinka Clears the Record on Achebe
“Achebe A Celebrated Storyteller, But No Father Of African Literature, Says Soyinka.” The headline sound sensationalistic and snipey, but this interview with Wole Soyinka about the death of Chinua Achebe is…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Why are barns painted red? Because of dying stars. Very important news: yesterday the world’s biggest crocodile turned 110 (maybe). On the other side of feelings about the world, welcome…
The Ecosystem Inside You
There’s lots of cool/gross stuff in this Michael Pollan article about the microbes in human bodies: “for every human cell that is intrinsic to our body, there are about 10…
FUNNY WOMEN #101: Threat Assessment and Risk Analysis for N. Drew
The client, C. Drew, an attorney, requested an investigation into the extraordinarily high number of violent incidents involving his teenage daughter, N.
“What was his name? Mark Carson!”
At BuzzFeed, images of New York’s Rally Against Hate. The rally came in response to recent anti-gay hate crimes, including the murder of Mark Carson, who was shot in the West Village…