BirrichinaLong-form Journalism Emotional baggage The Verge - Zoe SchifferAvery felt out of place at Away. Like many of the executives at the popular direct-to-consumer luggage brand, she’d gone to an Ivy League college, worked at a popular startup, and honed an intense work
BirrichinaCulture It's Back! NPR Unveils 2019 Book Concierge NPR - Petra MayerThe NPR 2019 Book Concierge is here! It features more than 350 recommendations from NPR staffers and trusted critics. So, Mary Louise, have you read any good books lately? I have, actually - tons of good
BirrichinaBooks What Frank Sinatra Taught Me About America The Atlantic - Niall WilliamsHe looked at me as if he knew that I too had a dream. When I was 23, I came to America for the first time with my soon-to-be wife, and settled in her hometown of Katonah, New York. I was a Dubliner who
BirrichinaWorld News ‘I Wanted to Die:’ Northern Ireland Confronts a Suicide Crisis The New York Times - Ceylan YeginsuLURGAN, Northern Ireland — On a cold February night in 2001, as Joe Holbeach was jogging along the pebbled shores of Newcastle in Northern Ireland, he imagined being taken in by the vicious tide and drowning.
BirrichinaThe Arts Dreaming Up Disneyland The New York Times - Tom ZoellnerDISNEY’S LAND Walt Disney and the Invention of the Amusement Park That Changed the World Those who knew Walt Disney often described him as an uncomplicated man of conventional 20th-century sensibilities:
BirrichinaLiterature The 10 Best Books of 2019 The New York TimesThis article has been revised to reflect the following correction: An earlier version of this article misstated the setting of Ben Lerner's "10:04." It is set primarily in New York, not Europe. In the
BirrichinaCulture What Happens To Your Used Stuff? 'Secondhand' Tells Of A Billion-Dollar Industry NPR - Gabino IglesiasThe first thing I learned about shopping after moving to Texas from the Caribbean was this: Go to Goodwill. When I needed my first hoodie, I went to Goodwill. When the carpet in my tiny studio got dirty,
BirrichinaLong-form Journalism How to Make a Website The Atlantic - Kaitlyn TiffanywikiHow embodies an alternative history of the internet, and an interesting possibility for its future. While there’s no telling exactly how many people have learned to French-kiss from wikiHow, we know
BirrichinaFishing Daughter and Dad, Chasing Salmon in Upstate New York The New York Times - Ali WatkinsMy dad and I were on the rocky bank of Sandy Creek when I saw the first salmon close enough to catch. Like a phantom, it glided against the current, its rhythm just a beat slower than the water around
BirrichinaLifestyle (UK) The struggle within the naturist movement – archive, 7 November 1969 The Guardian - Martin WoollacottThe fight is on inside British nudism between the hedonists and the disciplinarians, the radicals and the conservatives. At issue, among other things, is what Leslie Bainbridge, editor of Health and Efficiency,
Birrichina The Promise of Mr. Trash Wheel The New Yorker - Carolyn KormannJohn Kellett, the former director of Baltimore’s Maritime Museum, used to cross a footbridge over Jones Falls, the largest tributary feeding into Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, every day on his way to work.
BirrichinaOpinion New Book Reveals Secrets Of Italy’s Pasta Grannies Forbes - Irene S. LevineMany of the techniques and recipes of Italian home cooking have been passed down through generations. One example: If you ask an Italian how she—or he— learned to prepare pasta, they’ll likely credit mother
Birrichina Follow Michael Crichton's Rule The Wall Street Journal. - Andy Kessler“Jurassic Park” and “Westworld,” from the brilliant mind of Michael Crichton, aren’t real. But neither are a lot of things that pass for arguments these days. Crichton, who died in 2008, gave a lecture
BirrichinaMedia Industry Ten Years Ago, I Called Out David Letterman. This Month, We Sat Down to Talk. Vanity Fair - Nell ScovellIt’s not often that you speak truth to power and power responds, “Oops, sorry,” writes former Letterman writer Nell Scovell. This is the remarkable, true story of a rich white male celebrity who abused
BirrichinaOpinion Top Six Of The World’s Most Beautiful Libraries Forbes - Sandra MacGregorDid you know that public libraries can enrich the mind as well as the spirit? Thanks to this collection of breathtaking spots, the pursuit of knowledge can be both intellectually and aesthetically satisfying.
Birrichina Now Comes the Naked Truth The New York TimesI hear that dryly dismissive phrase leveled at me quite a bit lately from Shawn McCreesh, the 27-year-old in my office. It’s gotten so bad that I’ve stopped bothering to ask him to decode the mysteries
BirrichinaCulture You May Have To Wait To Borrow A New E-Book From The Library NPR - Lynn NearyLibraries across the U.S. are furious with one of the country's big five publishing houses. As of Friday, Macmillan Publishers Ltd. is drastically restricting the sales of its e-books to libraries. For
BirrichinaThe Arts Before You Fill That Prescription, You May Want to Read These Books The New York Times - Abigail ZugerWhen antibiotics first came to market barely 70 years ago, they were clear evidence of modern medicine’s power. These days, they are equally potent evidence of its limitations. Experts warn that we’re
Birrichina What are the best first lines in fiction? BBC Culture - By Hephzibah AndersonFrom the pithy to the provocative, the classic book opener comes in many different forms. Hephzibah Anderson explores the art of the perfect first sentence. How many times have I rewritten this opening
BirrichinaU.S. Politics How the baby boomers broke America POLITICO - By BEN WHITEThe most likely outcome in 2020 is that voters will yet again ask a baby boomer to fix what the baby boom broke. The 2020 election — barring a shocker — offers a strong chance of producing a president
BirrichinaCulture Sleep Loss, Sunscreen, And Very Little Sex In These 'Love Poems' For Parents NPR - Scott SimonMost love poems are about the first blush of attraction — before marriage or children. But John Kenney, a contributor to The New Yorker, writes for couples a little further down the road. In 2018 he published
Birrichina Tom Perrotta Shares 'Post-Parental' Reflections From An Empty Nest NPR - Terry GrossPerrotta's novel, Mrs. Fletcher, is now an HBO series. In 2017, he told Terry Gross that the book was inspired by the upheaval he experienced when his kids grew up and moved out of the house. This is AIR.
Birrichina John Le Carré Works Out Some Obsessions In 'Agent Running In The Field' NPR - Bethanne PatrickAt 88, novelist John le Carré continues to turn out books that writers of any younger age would kill to publish. Agent Running in the Field, his 26th, opens cheekily with a badminton challenge: Nat, close
BirrichinaThe Arts Jack Reacher Is Still Restless. But His Creator Has Settled Down. The New York Times - Janet MaslinThis article has been revised to reflect the following correction: An earlier version of this article misstated which novel was the first published in the Jack Reacher series. It was “Killing Floor,” “Echo
BirrichinaWinter Olympics Olympic Destroyer: The Cyberattack on the 2018 Winter Games longreads.com - Krista Stevens As the opening ceremonies of the 2018 Winter Olympics began, a cyberattack crippled the games’ digital infrastructure, jeopardizing WIFI connections, …
Birrichina A Man Moves Into a Lighthouse. Strangeness Ensues. The Atlantic - David SimsRobert Eggers’s new film, starring Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe, is an enthralling exploration of the mania of isolation. Through almost every moment of The Lighthouse, there’s a howling noise in
Birrichina Who Murdered Malta's Most Famous Journalist? The Atlantic - Rachel DonadioThe assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia raises questions about the tiny island nation that has become a back door to Europe. STRASBOURG—Daphne Caruana Galizia was less than a mile from home when her
BirrichinaCulture In 'Olive, Again,' Elizabeth Strout Revisits An Old Friend NPR - Heller McAlpinTen years after Elizabeth Strout won a Pulitzer Prize for her eponymous collection of linked stories about Olive Kitteridge, a difficult but endearing, retired but not retiring middle school math teacher,
Birrichina Bill Bryson's 'The Body' Is Missing His Characteristic Wit, Ingenious Way Of Analysis NPR - Kamil AhsanWhen I was a teenager, I had an argument with a close friend about Bill Bryson. Both of us were competitive debaters, which meant we actively sought out sweeping, magisterial works like A Short History
