Monomania: Why Writing All By Your Lonesome Kind of Sucks
Over at the New York Times “Draft” blog, Benjamin Nugent, author of Good Kids, breaks down the romantic notion that locking yourself away in the “primeval hush of the Midwest”…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Happy whatever. Sometimes you just need to look at the best dogs. Hello there, new owl. Any occasion is a good occasion to revisit the most impressive crossword puzzle of…
What’s The Deal With Massive Open Online Courses?
MOOC’s are a word for forgetting that universities have never grown without being planted, for trusting that just as students can teach themselves, universities will magically grow themselves, too. In…
Why the Civil War Is Still Worth Talking About
Byliner’s list of spectacular nonfiction articles of 2012 highlights two complementary essays from the Atlantic‘s Civil War issue. First, Yoni Appelbaum uses a hyperrealistic “cyclotron” painting of the Battle of Gettysburg…
Whale: 1685, Kitten: 1
Ever thought, “I know Herman Melville was talking about a whale but how much, really, did he talk about a whale?” This cool page will answer your question with its graphical representation…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I am pretty sure the internet was invented so I could look at things that fit perfectly into other things. Fare thee well world’s scariest airport. Not to get all…
Books Elissa Bassist Thinks You Should Read
The Equals Record asks Funny Women editor (and writer/motherfucker) Elissa Bassist what she’s reading offline. She responds with a whole shelf’s worth of books, from David Foster Wallace’s masterpiece Infinite Jest…
FUNNY WOMEN #93: Revised Pinterest FAQs
Pinterest is a million-page woman’s magazine written by everyone you’ve ever met and edited by no one.
Race, Class, and Indie Rock Music
No teenager wants to listen to their parents’ music. For Martin Douglas, that music was hip-hop, so he gravitated toward the world of grunge and indie rock. The only problem:…
Intertextual Cityscapes
According to his website, Matthew Picton is interested in “humanising the city by deconstructing the clean, uncompromising aesthetic of the cartographic city plan and imbuing it with the unique history…
How to Look Like You’re Reading Something Smart on the Bus
You’re a reasonable reader. You like the aesthetics of an old-fashioned paper-and-glue book, but you’re not averse to turning the virtual pages of an e-reader either. If that description sounds…
Graywolf Press Needs your Help!
Books sales cover only 50 percent of Graywolf’s expenses, which is why they are currently running an Indiegogo campaign to raise money to build a new and much improved website.…