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This is the Library Hotel, in Koh Samui, Thailand. We appreciate the image’s caption: “Real happiness is not complicated at all.” Indeed, we would go so ...
May 21, 2013 03:00 PM
I’m in the market for a mentor. My qualifications? I’m educated. Some (prospective employers, Stafford Loan sharks, OKCupid algorithms) would say too ...
May 21, 2013 01:48 PM | 1 comments
What follows is the only known surviving recording of Virginia Woolf, part of a BBC radio broadcast from 1937. The talk is titled “Craftsmanship.”
May 21, 2013 10:57 AM | 3 comments
From The Hairpin, “Etymological Origins of Words Related to Insults.” (And we really like that nice is on there.) A little reading-room escapism to ...
May 21, 2013 09:30 AM
To Eugenio Scalfari—Rome March 7, 1942 I accepted the praise you gave me at the start of your letter with barely restrained grunts of satisfaction. ...
May 20, 2013 03:41 PM
I was delighted and relieved, recently, to run across the Tumblr Stoop Books of Brooklyn, which has been garnering some well-deserved Internet buzz. Delighted ...
May 20, 2013 01:30 PM
Deborah Eisenberg and and Mark Leyner on the art of fiction.
Fiction from David Gates, Ottessa Moshfegh, Mark Leyner, and more.
Poems by Stephen Dunn, Ange Mlinko, and Frederick Seidel.
Nonfiction by David Searcy and Vivian Gornick.
2011
“Because I don’t work with an outline, writing a story is like crossing a stream, now I’m on this rock, now I’m on this rock, now I’m on this rock.”