Posts Tagged: sadness

The Alternative Hypotheses: A Conversation with Brandon Taylor

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Brandon Taylor discusses his new story collection, FILTHY ANIMALS.

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The Saturday Rumpus Review: Little Minnie at the Movies

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Being a teenager sucks. It’s not pretty or nice or sweet or kind.

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Excavated Heartbreaking Interview with David Foster Wallace

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I didn’t really understand emotionally that there are people around who didn’t have enough to eat, who weren’t warm enough, who didn’t have a place to live, whose parents beat the hell out of them regularly. The sadness isn’t in seeing it, the sadness is in realizing how phenomenally lucky I am, not only to […]

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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee

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Some people wait a lifetime to find a website full of cool-looking old cassettes. (via John Gall) This tumblr collects “funny tombstones from around the world.” (via Jason Arias) To commemorate the Giants winning the World Series, McSweeney’s is selling a cool limited-edition poster of Giants-related Dave Eggers drawings. The headline for this is, “Nicaragua […]

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