Anatomy of a Motherfucker
Maria Popova collects the advice of Cheryl Strayed and uses Strayed’s words to deconstruct motherfuckery. Invoking the time right before she wrote her first book, when she too was a…
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Word of the Day: Kakorrhaphiophobia
(n.) an abnormal fear of failure or defeat; from the Greek kakos (“bad, evil”); syn. atychiphobia Everybody in L.A. fails. We just do. —Moby, from “Creativity and Freedom to Fail”…
Pictures Made from a Thousand Words
“Art-typing,” or using a typewriter to create visual art, first stemmed from experimenting stenographers and then blossomed in the 1950s with the concrete poetry movement. A new anthology, Typewriter Art,…
“Great and shadowy and strange was the world”
Take an awe-inspiring five minute journey through your computer screen into H.G. Wells’s imagination. From filmmaker James W. Griffiths and PBS Digital Studios, A Solitary World pits text adapted from five…
Ray Bradbury on love, life, and writing
The folks over at Brainpickings have unearthed a video from 1974 from a show called Day at Night where guest Ray Bradbury talked about writing, love, and life. “I use…
Mechanized Storytelling
In 1928, author William Wallace Cook catalogued every narrative plot “through a method that bordered on madness,” ending up with 1,462 plots and the how-to manual Plotto: The Master Book…