Ang Lee Opts Not to Forget Dream
How does a young Taiwanese immigrant to the United States hold onto his filmmaking dream through years of rejection and low-paying drudgery? The answer for Ang Lee: a kickass wife.…
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Laughably Good Books
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? A Bad Idea I’m About to Do. I Feel Bad About My Neck. The titles of comedy books almost make a good blog post…
Fiction Becomes Islamic Punk Reality
When Michael Muhammad Knight wrote his novel The Taqwacores, about Muslims playing punk music, he didn’t know his fictional story would end up throwing down roots in the real world. But…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Coming soon in hubris: here comes the Titanic II. Los Angeles: birthplace of the future (sure, ok). What a sad life, to be a spacesuit never worn to the moon.…
Weird Americans
The last generation or two of undergraduates have largely been taught by a cohort of social scientists busily doing penance for the racism and Eurocentrism of their predecessors, albeit in…
Warm, Wise Submissions Tips
Submit to the idea that submitting your work can teach you where you’ve come from as a writer, where you’re at as a writer, and where you might be going…
Backcountry Childhoods
Memory forms, piece by piece. Some of them go missing, others interlock, firm. We fill in the missing pieces with what we imagine or just leave the gap, admit the…
Not An Email
This is a letter in two parts. It didn’t start out that way but I got to thinking about joy and revision. So when I say goodbye the first time,…
The History and Significance of Black Dolls
You may have heard of the doll test, during which black children, given the choice between a black doll and an otherwise identical white doll, often identified the white one…
Cut and Paste with Intention
However crude, social media today allows us to cut and paste our world into a space (mostly) under our control. Whether we’re posting on Pinterest (an action likened to tearing…
When are they going to start playing the cut-off music?
Winning tips on speechifying from the New York Times Opinionator. Teddy Wayne expands on the classic tools of Public Speaking 101 with heartfelt advice like: Imagine everyone in the audience…
Modern Marginalia
Two recent innovations for the digital conversation within electronic books. In his column, One More Thing, Baratunde Thurston proposes: What if you could download books that had been pre-annotated? I…