Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
It’s true! Rich people will be able to walk on the moon pretty soon. It is important sometimes to celebrate the awful parts of London. Behold the snowflake! Children’s games…
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Little House in the Big Woods
If figurines were awarded for completing twentysomething life-experience clichés, I have been angling for the entire set: the search for myself in central European beer halls; the move west to…
Thriller Education
At Words Without Borders, B.J. Epstein expounds upon the culture of crime novels, its covert international influence and the diversity of fear. She also continues the necessary conversation of why…
Anticipatory Plagiarism
“Ultimately, as a reader and a writer, I find hope in resistance, in the very act of writing against this culture–even when it is without ‘the old excitement of creation’…”…
Three Cheers for Lit Mags!
And three cheers for LaTanya McQueen’s paean to them on The Missouri Review‘s blog. Her description of losing hours in bookstores among copies of Tin House and Conjunction will no doubt ring true…
Re-examining the “Dysfunctional Pleasure” of Eating Disorders
That the Ironman participant may be as vain or as emotionally distressed as a freely directed exerciser becomes irrelevant, because the Ironman race, like a Thanksgiving feast, takes place in the…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Georgian kindergartens are cooler than yours. Incidentally, every day is a good day to revisit crazy Soviet architecture. Old plant anatomy charts (are neat). James Cameron presents: giant crustaceans and…
Repeal Day, Writer Style
Today marks the 79th anniversary of the 21st Amendment, which repealed the 18th Amendment, which prohibited alcohol. In other words, on this day in 1933, booze became legal once more…
Young Brooklyn Artists Keep it Fresh
The fresh eyes and perspectives of young artists keep the art world from stagnating, and Brooklyn is a hotbed for these up-and-coming artists. The L Magazine interviews some young Brooklyn…
Happy Birthday, Joan Didion
Joan Didion’s 78th birthday is as good an excuse as any to revisit her conversation with Sheila Heti for the Believer. The two talk about the performative aspects of writing, the…
When Dora the Explorer is Not Enough
Like many of his third-grade classmates, Mario Cortez-Pacheco likes reading the “Magic Tree House” series, about a brother and a sister who take adventurous trips back in time. He also…
Think. Don’t Write.
“’I write every waking minute,’ I said. I meant, of course, that I am always writing in my head.” At Draft, novelist and teacher Silas House reflects on the practice…