Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
One last year-in-review: National Geographic has your photos of 2012. These photos of the blue whale’s installation at the American Museum of Natural History are my favorite things today. Although…
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Happy Birthday, Simone de Beauvoir!
You would have been 105 today. “I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness,…
The Greatest Pickpocket in the World
There’s a reason everyone you know is tweeting links to the New Yorker story about a master pickpocket, and that reason is: it’s amazing. You can’t help but love the feats…
Tweeting Drone Strikes
I started this Twitter account because I expected no one to follow it. In some ways, that was the point — I didn’t really think anyone wanted to be interrupted…
A Good Autodidact Is Hard to Find
For the Atlantic‘s “By Heart,” “a series in which authors share and discuss their all-time favorite passages in literature,” Jim Shepard discusses Flannery O’Connor, James Joyce, and the painfully fleeting nature…
Lessons from the Psych Ward
“‘I see he hasn’t killed you, then,’ he says casually. ‘You going soft in your old age, Larry?'” Scientific American has posted an excerpt of The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints,…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Today’s place-I-want-to-go: the Harbin Ice Festival! Rogue planets are the best planets. Michael Zimmerer’s pictures of snow and the American West are pretty nice. Now let’s explore London in the…
Tomorrow: Buy a Manuscript Consultation with A Famous Author
If you’ve ever dreamed of a manuscript consultation with your literary hero, here’s your chance to make it come true. For $1800, you can get advice on your writing from…
More on Memoir
Rumpus columnist Steve Almond weighs in on Stephen Elliott’s side of the is-memoir-an-acceptable-form-of-literature debate. “[Hamilton] Nolan is right to decry this kind of cynicism,” writes Almond. “But what he gets…
Writers vs Commerce
If you’re in New York on January 17th, we urge you to attend the event Writers vs Commerce at the amazing Housing Works Bookstore at 7:00pm. “Commerce and capitalism rarely…
Stalking Harper Lee
How far are you willing to go to know the work, the process, the life of an artist? The Millions’ Amy Whitaker delves into the world of Harper Lee in…
Happy 40th, Schoolhouse Rock!
“I always heeded the children.” NPR’s Weekend Edition interviews Bob Dorough, composer, conductor, and singer of many of the Schoolhouse Rock songs. Dorough discusses some of his favorites, the demos that never…