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Lady Soul
The Paris Review - Brian Cullman
In the end, we’re left with the music: those luminous gospel recordings she made as a young teenager, still under her father’s wing; the halting, if promising, cocktail-blues recordings from the early
Elena Ferrante: ‘One morning I looked at myself in the mirror and recognised my mother’
The Guardian - Elena Ferrante
My mother was very beautiful and very clever, like all mammas, so I loved her and hated her. I began to hate her when I was around 10, maybe because I loved her so much that the idea of losing her threw
How to Create and Use a Character Bible for your Novel
writingcooperative.com - ProWritingAid
A character bible is the place you collect information about all the characters in your novel. From your heroine to the car wash attendant who says …
The Arts
Camille Thurman Is A Rare Jazz Double Threat
NPR - Ailsa Chang , Noah Caldwell
In the world of jazz, most musicians choose one single thing and get as good as humanly possible at it, but not Camille Thurman. She's known as a double threat: The rare jazz musician who has mastered
Italian idioms 101: Nine key phrases to know
gadventures.com - by Simran Sethi
It began innocently. Years ago, as I headed to Italy to research food and farming, I decided to bone up on local idioms — colourful expressions that …
One Way to Plot a Novel
writingcooperative.com - K. Kris Loomis
Plotter or Pantser?The first decision a writer faces at the beginning of a long fiction project is whether they are going to plot it or pants it. One …
Macular Degeneration
Blue light from phone screens accelerates blindness, study finds
The Guardian - Press Association
Light from digital devices triggers creation of toxic molecule in the retina that can cause macular degeneration Scientists say they have found how blue light from smartphones, laptops and other digital
Millennial reading habits have changed the definition of a classic
Quartz - Ajinomoh Ozovehe Caleb
The era of the ubiquitous classic is behind us. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Ragtime, and Slaughterhouse-Five have had their time in the sun. What would their modern equivalents be? The reason it’s harder
Books
Poetry Rx: Listen I Love You Joy Is Coming
The Paris Review - Sarah Kay
In our column Poetry Rx, readers write in with a specific emotion, and our resident poets—Sarah Kay, Kaveh Akbar, and Claire Schwartz—take turns prescribing the perfect poems to match. This week, Sarah
Lifestyle (UK)
Know thyself… by writing your first novel
The Guardian - Richard Skinner
Don’t worry what others think. You are writing for yourself Once you find the sweet spot, your story will flow out of you Writing a novel is a scary prospect. They’re so long and winding, they can seem
Richard Powers: ‘I love sci-fi. The more 10-foot reptilians, the better’
The Guardian - Richard Powers
I remember amazing my mother with a little parlour trick involving Dr Seuss that I’d picked from my older siblings The book I am currently reading It’s said that a person might profitably read Don Quixote
PSA: Plastic food containers with these *three* recycling codes aren’t safe for your health
Well+Good - by Kells McPhillips
If your food-container collection still consists of plastics instead of glass, frequently recycling and replacing ’em is a must to protect yourself …
How to write your first novel, according to experts
standard.co.uk - KATIE LAW
Everyone’s got a novel inside them, right? According to Richard Skinner, director of the fiction programme at the highly-esteemed Faber Academy, and …
Books
Donald Hall, Foremost God in the Harvard College Pantheon
The Paris Review - Louis Begley
Don Hall is dead after a brief struggle with a horrid and untreatable cancer. It was impossible not to wish for his prompt release from this misery. All the same, I can’t really believe that he is gone,
Human Geography
Separated Triplets Offer A Glimpse Into 'The Wild West Of Psychology'
NPR - Scott Simon
Bobby Shafran got an unexpectedly warm welcome on his first day at college in 1980. "Immediately everyone greeted him like he'd been there for years," says filmmaker Tim Wardle. "Guys coming up to him,
Their daughter was diagnosed with an aggressive brain tumor. Two weeks later, their son was too
Los Angeles Times - By Soumya Karlamangla
Duncan Avery thought his son was imitating his big sister when he said his head hurt. Avery’s other child, 6-year-old Kalea, had been diagnosed with a brain tumor a week earlier. She had just had surgery
Lifestyle
Workouts can be a literal walk in the park, according to the best scientific research ever
Well+Good - by Kells McPhillips
After grinding away at your desk for nine hours straight, going on a post-work walk (especially with your canine bestie) can be a great way to shake …
Download 55 Free Online Literature Courses: From Dante and Milton to Kerouac and Tolkien
openculture.com - by Colin Marshall
Here at Open Culture, we don't just feature education in your recommended daily servings of culturally wide-ranging video, audio, text, and image — …
Marketing
An Award-Winning Author Says This Should Be the Goal of Everything You Write
Inc Magazine - By Glenn Leibowitz
George Saunders is an American author who contributes essays and short stories to The New Yorker and several other publications. Saunders has published several volumes of his short stories, for which received
Six Brain Hacks To Learn Anything Faster
Fast Company - By Stephanie Vozza
Research proves there are ways to learn new skills and concepts with speed and ease. Whether it’s a new technology, a foreign language, or an advanced skill, staying competitive often means learning new
Books
One Word: Castration
The Paris Review - Gavin Francis
We defend ourselves not against castration anxiety but against death, a far more absolute castration.—Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death The university library at my medical school was shared with students
Books
Feminize Your Canon: Olivia Manning
The Paris Review - Emma Garman
Our new monthly column, Feminize Your Canon, explores the lives of underrated and underread female authors. The British novelist Olivia Manning spent her dogged, embittered career longing, largely in for
New York State
If You Remodel It, They Will Come
electricliterature.com - Recommended Reading
“The Vatican,” short fiction by Ben LooryWelcome to Recommended Reading’s new Monday Commuter, our home for flash, graphic, and experimental …
Children play barefoot in a cactus garden on the Canary Islands, 1955. Photograph by Franc and Jean Shore, National Geographic
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Women sit for a portrait in Salzburg, Austria, 1929. Photograph by Hans Hildenbrand, National Geographic Creative
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Hillside houses overlook smoke-belching steel mills in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1949
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Hillside houses overlook smoke-belching steel mills in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1949. Photograph by John E. Fletcher and Anthony B. Stewart, National Geographic Creative
A woman leans on the entrance to one of Bordighera’s gardens in Italy, 1928.Photograph by Hans Hildenbrand, National Geographic
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Many breast cancer patients can skip chemo, big study finds
Associated Press - By MARILYNN MARCHIONE, AP Chief Medical Writer
CHICAGO (AP) — Most women with the most common form of early-stage breast cancer can safely skip chemotherapy without hurting their chances of beating the disease, doctors are reporting from a landmark
The Poop Cure
amnh.org
Your poop contains living beings! Most of it isn’t alive, of course—as you’d expect, a lot of it is made up of things like water, undigested food, …
The Theatre
Crave review – Julie Cunningham dances in the darkness of Sarah Kane's play
The Guardian - Judith Mackrell
Horrors haunt the text of Crave, the 1998 play by Sarah Kane in which four individuals (named A, B, C and M) speak in fragmented voices about the traumas that have left them damaged and bereft. Rape, and

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Lady Soul

Elena Ferrante: ‘One morning I looked at myself in the mirror and recognised my mother’

How to Create and Use a Character Bible for your Novel

Camille Thurman Is A Rare Jazz Double Threat

Italian idioms 101: Nine key phrases to know

One Way to Plot a Novel

Blue light from phone screens accelerates blindness, study finds

Millennial reading habits have changed the definition of a classic

Poetry Rx: Listen I Love You Joy Is Coming

Know thyself… by writing your first novel

Richard Powers: ‘I love sci-fi. The more 10-foot reptilians, the better’

PSA: Plastic food containers with these three recycling codes aren’t safe for your health

How to write your first novel, according to experts

Donald Hall, Foremost God in the Harvard College Pantheon

Separated Triplets Offer A Glimpse Into 'The Wild West Of Psychology'

Their daughter was diagnosed with an aggressive brain tumor. Two weeks later, their son was too

Workouts can be a literal walk in the park, according to the best scientific research ever

Download 55 Free Online Literature Courses: From Dante and Milton to Kerouac and Tolkien

An Award-Winning Author Says This Should Be the Goal of Everything You Write

Six Brain Hacks To Learn Anything Faster

One Word: Castration

Feminize Your Canon: Olivia Manning

If You Remodel It, They Will Come

Children play barefoot in a cactus garden on the Canary Islands, 1955. Photograph by Franc and Jean Shore, National Geographic

Women sit for a portrait in Salzburg, Austria, 1929. Photograph by Hans Hildenbrand, National Geographic Creative

Hillside houses overlook smoke-belching steel mills in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1949

A woman leans on the entrance to one of Bordighera’s gardens in Italy, 1928.Photograph by Hans Hildenbrand, National Geographic

Many breast cancer patients can skip chemo, big study finds

The Poop Cure

Crave review – Julie Cunningham dances in the darkness of Sarah Kane's play