Carolyn Main [Don’t be a hot mess in 2018! Get your shit together with this week’s special feature, the “Get Your Shit Together Issue!” We think this story will help….—eds.] There’s only one way a book about timing can properly begin—with the famous quote from Miles Davis: “Timing isn’t the main thing. It’s the only […]
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Colin Winnette’s Gripping Ghost Story of Decaying Civilization
JENNIFER YIN Colin Winnette’s new novel The Job of the Wasp opens with a stark, Dickensian scene: An unnamed boy narrator interviews with a stern but self-interested orphanage Headmaster. “This is not a school,” the Headmaster says, laying down the strict guidelines of the boy’s new home. “It is a temporary holding facility with mandatory […]
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Technology—Helping You to Help Yourself
Podcasts and More: The New Media of Personal Growth
The New Media of Personal Growth
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Become a Time Wizard!
Okay, Daniel H. Pink’s When Won’t Exactly Turn You into One—But It’s a Start
Daniel H. Pink’s When won’t exactly turn you into a time wizard, but it’s a start.
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Colin Winnette’s Gripping Ghost Story of Decaying Civilization
The Job of the Wasp Tackles Orphan Lit, Gothic Mystery, and the Lies We Tell Ourselves
The Job of the Wasp tackles orphan lit, Gothic mystery, and the lies we tell ourselves.
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Ursula K. Le Guin, Beloved Portland Author, Has Died
Euan Monaghan/Structo The New York Times: Ursula K. Le Guin, the immensely popular author who brought literary depth and a tough-minded feminine sensibility to science fiction and fantasy with books like “The Left Hand of Darkness” and the Earthsea series, died on Monday at her home in Portland, Ore. She was 88. This is a […]
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Let Us Pour One Out for the Hairpin, the Site That Made Smart, Weird Girls Feel Welcome
I miss you already. Nataliia Volyk / Getty On Tuesday, news of the Awl’s closure spread far and wide, and I thought to myself: But what about the Hairpin? The Awl’s sister site is closing, too, and with it I feel my youth slipping away, because while I always had a crush on the Awl, […]
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Carrie Brownstein Is Making a TV Show About Her Life (and a New Sleater-Kinney Album Is in the Works!)
It’s “a show about a young woman, a band, and a community learning how to be unafraid of their own noise.”
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David Bowie’s Sci-Fi Masterpiece The Man Who Fell to Earth Is Explored in Earthbound
On the occasion of what would have been David Bowie’s 71st birthday, it seems a good day to share some overdue thoughts on a recent Bowie-related book I recently had the opportunity to check out. Susan Compo’s Earthbound: David Bowie and The Man Who Fell to Earth was published by Jawbone Press at the end […]
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Short-Form Comics You Will Love
From Reverse Flaneur M. Sabine Rear I want to read something short. Do you ever feel that way? You’re browsing at the comic book store and every good book is a three-pound magnum opus, promising to break you open and rebuild you like boot camp. But what if it’s Sunday and I’m not willing to […]
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Sung Yim’s Debut Memoir Depicts Trauma and Recovery With No Empty Platitudes
Author photo by Jason Quigley “[A]s my mom and I both know she failed to love me right, we also both know she always did love me,” writes Sung Yim in their new memoir, What About the Rest of Your Life. “That’s why love can be both arbitrary and dangerous.” That line contains Yim’s central […]
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Sung Yim’s Debut Is One to Watch
What About the Rest of Your Life Depicts Trauma and Recovery With No Empty Platitudes
“[A]s my mom and I both know she failed to love me right, we also both know she always did love me,” writes Sung Yim in their new memoir, What About the Rest of Your Life. “That’s why love can be both arbitrary and dangerous.” That line contains Yim’s central throughline: the way loving an […]