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…
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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…
Dan Weiss’s Moirning Coffee
Hey, so, uh, we may have found a lost continent under the Indian Ocean. Yesterday’s tomorrow today (yesterday)! This drinkable water creating billboard is pretty neat huh? Important news: there…
Bestsellers, Worst Ethics
Reading bestsellers lists can be baffling. You know the whole world isn’t going to spring for literary fiction or erudite essay collections all the time, but sometimes a book seems…
A McSweeney’s Update
If any Rails Developers out there are looking for part-time (possibility for full-time) work, our friends at McSweeney’s seek help updating and expanding the McSweeney’s iOS App, the Internet Tendency, and their online…
Untangling the Vernacular Web
In 1973, anthropologist Clifford Geertz published The Interpretation of Cultures, in which he discusses the idea of the vernacular web—a mess of interactions affecting how we understand our world. Now, folklorist Robert…
Fight Song Giveaway! (Is now over)
In celebration of yesterday’s interview with Joshua Mohr, we’re giving away three copies of his novel Fight Song, “a call to arms against complacency, a rally towards reclaiming one’s own individuality.” The…