February 2012
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January 2012
4 posts
“Suzzy Roche is mostly known as the youngest member of the three-sister band The...”
– Lorrie Moore in the New York Review of Books, January 10. (via upstairsatthesquare)
Carpetbagger: Seeking Wisdom From José Saramago →
A young documentarian talks about why he decided to film José Saramago and his wife, Pilar del Rio, in the last years before the writer’s death.
Kodak: A Thousand Words - Michael Crouser: A... →
If you’re in New York, it’s well worth it to check out this quietly powerful show.
December 2011
6 posts
City Room: Visiting a Forest at Its Most Elemental →
Autumn Unfolds, Week 13: In Inwood Hill Park in Upper Manhattan, leaves have blown into the hollows, revealing an emerald carpet of moss.
Reading this will make you happy. I promise.
“Copy out things that you really love. Any book. Put the quotation marks around...”
– Nicholson Baker on copying out passages of your favorite books by hand (via austinkleon
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November 2011
18 posts
The Truant Muse: My 50,000th Tweet →
moorehn:
Ever since I discovered Twitter - I mean, really discovered it, without scorning it - I have loved it as a news feed. For me, it replaced my daily use of the Dow Jones Newswires, the Bloomberg headlines, and the Reuters terminal as well as multiple visits to WSJ.com and NYtimes.com to hunt for…
This aligns with my own feelings about Twitter - it reminds me of a time when I used...
"This is why I personally care about diversity:... →
changetheratio:
Bravo, Eric Ries.
Readers of this blog will recognize a lot of the matter-of-fact common sense points here - Ries is not saying anything new. He’s just the one saying it. That matters. A lot.
Read this.
npr:
Brewery heiress Daphne Guinness is known...
The 99% is winning in a landslide in TIME's Person...
changetheratio:
think-progress:
You can still vote here.
This is amazing, actually. And far more interesting than the “YOU” of five years ago (how long ago THAT seems). Those are two pretty interesting bookends for these five years, actually. From YOU to the 99%. From possibility to reality, in an arc of “what went wrong?”
This month marks 20 years that Katie Roiphe has...
mikkipedia:
New York Times, November, 1991: “Date Rape Hysteria”
New York Times, November 2011: “Sexual Harassment: What on Earth Is That?”
It’s our hate-aversary!
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Play-By-Play by Lyssie J.: On Savoring and... →
lyssiej:
The Cast of LYSISTRATA JONES and Jerry Zaks at the Gym at Judson.
Jerry Zaks, when something is going well, is fond of stopping and just announcing to the room, “Everyone. A dream is coming true. Stop and savor. Relish.” Now, I assumed this was just the ploy of a very seasoned…
I had the good fortune to see their dress rehearsal last night - go see this show!
The Politics Of Faith–the Role Of Religion In... →
Did you know that one-third of the world risks arrest, imprisonment, even death, just to worship in their faith? I’m the host this month for America Abroad. Check it out…..
October 2011
9 posts
The Guardian Launches Twitter-Based Search Bot →
The Guardian unveiled a Twitter-based search bot Thursday. Users can search for content on The Guardian’s website by tweeting a question or keyword(s) to @GuardianTagBot. The bot will immediately tweet back a link to a search results page on guardian.co.uk. For example, users could tweet, “…
Luthiers: The Latest Endangered Species →
I’m the leader of the Yale Public Voices Fellowship Project, a program run by the OpEd Project …..and this is our first oped in the Times, by a rockin’ prof of anthropology at Yale who fills us in on the threat to a new endangered species: guitar-makers.
Foreign Affairs: The Rich and the Rest →
foreignaffairsmagazine:
Foreign Affairs coverage of economic inequality and its effect on the American social contract.
The Broken Contract
By George Packer (New Yorker staff writer)
Like an odorless gas, economic inequality pervades every corner of the United States and saps the strength of its…
“Generation X is tired of your sense of entitlement. Generation X also graduated...”
– Word up. (via moorehn)
Wow. I would love to hear responses.
“Baseball and Writing
by Marianne Moore
(Suggested by post-game...”
– Often Ms. Marianne Moore is a little too avant for me, because I am Not Very Smart About Verse, but this—so muscular and clever—is a gem. (via mikkipedia)
September 2011
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“Can it be done on friendship? I don’t think so. On intelligence? No. On hope, on...”
– Renata Adler, Pitch Dark, p. 122 (via morematter)
Oh, this makes me feel better somehow.
It's Not Gender Warfare...It's Math.
annaholmes:
(A shorter version of this piece appears in today’s Washington Post. Photo of Google executive and engineer Marisa Mayer via. Headline via.)
Let’s say I was designing a new piece of software to make my life as a writer a little easier. First, I’d program it count how many characters I’d typed out and in what amount of time, in order to document my productivity on any given day....
City Room: Autumn Unfolds in a Patch of Urban... →
Autumn Unfolds: Marielle Anzelone, a botanist and urban ecologist who founded NYC Wildflower Week, will report on the season once a week from a patch of forest in Inwood Hill Park.
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“Read books you’d like to write. If you want to write literature, read...”
– Annie Dillard, “Notes For Young Writers” (via austinkleon)
Always, always, always.
The Truant Muse: A Fondly Kept List of Improbable... →
moorehn:
If Charles Dickens had not lived, we would have had to make up bizarre names. Or, alternatively, wait for the universe to reveal them in newspapers. I am going to make this post a repository of wonderfully strange names I come across in my reading.These are names that, if I read them in a book, I…