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Are Apostrophes Necessary? No, Not Really. by Michael J.X. Malady (Slate)
One hundred and eighteen miles north of London, in the town of Boston, England, there lives a retired newspaperman named John Richards who is experiencing an unusually rotten spring. Richards is the founder and chairman of something called the Apostrophe Protection Society. His world, at least as related to the tiny mark that denotes possessives and the omission of letters from certain words, appears to be crashing down around him.
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"Any book has behind it all the other books that have been written."
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Central Market by Tyondai Braxton (2009)
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Choose Your Own Adventure: Author Edition
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Joan Didion: Essays Online
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Over four decades of writing have done nothing to blunt Joan Didion’s razor sharp wit or dull her sparkling prose. A full list of all her essays that are available online is here.
"I still value hope, but I see it as only part of what’s required, a starting point. Think of it as the match but not the tinder or the blaze. To matter, to change the world, you also need devotion and will and you need to act."
Rebecca Solnit on changing the world, “The Case for Hope, Continued.” (via utnereader)
Inside LEGO's Life-Size Star Wars X-Wing Fighter With a 7-Year-Old by Robert Kolker (New York Magazine)
The biggest LEGO sculpture ever made will be in Times Square soon.
Race, Monogamy, and Other Lies They Told You (Utne Reader)
There is a shared set of beliefs about human nature that shapes the way we see the world — common assumptions about race, aggression, and sex that are seen as just part of being human.
Free to Be Depressed and Alone: On George Packer’s The Unwinding (The Millions)
“A sign of just how bleak the country’s sense of the future is can be found in Max Brooks’s World War Z. Although the speculative novel — which rather cleverly reimagines Studs Terkel’s The Good War as an oral history of a world-spanning zombie onslaught — spends much of its time in rather bleak scenery, it also contains a clear trumpeting of hope. Because after Brooks gets done reporting how different nations respond to the assault of the undead, the interviewees (particularly the Americans) talk about how they fought back. Not only do they restructure a shattered nation, they recapture the concept of purpose, of collective action, of citizenship.”
Free to Be Depressed and Alone: On George Packer’s The Unwinding
