Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Important morning news: Saturn is rad! Scandals in the OED! Yes, the US wanted to nuke the moon. Congratulations Eastern Hellbender for being born in captivity and on being both…
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Poets respond to the Israel-Gaza conflict
Marcela Sulak and Tala Abu Rahmeh called on poets to respond to the Israeli and Gaza conflict(s) through letters and poetry in a collaborative project called “The Gaza Poetry Roundtable.” Much…
Today In Loss of Innocence
I saw Hanson twice in the ’90s and each time it epitomized joyful innocence. Which led me to wonder how only six years later, here I was, nodding out with…
“Boundless optimism and boundless cynicism”
“To me at least there was a sense that the Post is a dying art form. It’s a paper already nostalgic for itself: The headlines, the blotter, all touch back…
The Plight of the Anglocentric Dictionary
Beware–your Oxford English Dictionary is missing thousands of words! It has been revealed that former OED editor, the late Robert Burchfield secretly deleted thousands of words that he deemed too…
Home Sweet Omaha
Nebraska: golden Midwestern land of corn, cows, and…call centers? Kathleen Massara writes for n+1 about growing up in Omaha. Massara’s Nebraska has a lot more frustrating cubicle jobs than, say,…
A Soundtrack for Writing
What music do you write to? GalleyCat has accumulated a decent-sized list of songs that are guaranteed to churn out inspiration.
Protecting Possum Man’s Hard Drive
What do you do with a loved one’s letters, photos, and journals when they pass away? What about their emails, online accounts, and computer files? In an essay at Locus…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Today’s theme is “things Dan finds neat”. This 1930s illustrated guide to hypothetical alien life is my favorite thing today. This story about the official Chinese newspaper not getting that…
Everybody Loves a Good Looking Book
There might be some light at the end of the tunnel for independent bookstores. At NPR Books, Lynn Neary discusses the rising popularity of pretty, hardcover books and their power…
How to Talk to Mothers of Dying Children
If I wrote about my son in a sentimentalized, cloying, tragic way, perhaps I’d be accused of a woman who writes “silly little stories” instead of epic American novels that…
“A Humiliated Boy’s Idea of Manhood”
What do Raymond Chandler’s protagonists have in common with hip-hop artists? At The Atlantic, Ta-Nehisi Coates investigates: “I’ve had the privilege of reading The Big Sleep, between bouts of dabbling…