Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Why scribes belong together My husband, Art Taylor, and I talk about a lot of things. Most are along the lines of “What’s for dinner?” or “Need to clean up the cat vomit.” However, when we’re not navigating the day-to-day chores of life, we talk about short fiction. And that’s why we’re here. To celebrate…
The shower-in-the-kitchen thing is like the unicorn of bad NYC real estate. Occasionally you hear about them, but only a few people have actually seen them. Others have only seen them in movies—a well-placed design element for added comedic “Only In New York” effect. But they are real, they are out there, and the kind…
Source: www.launchgood.com Adnan Syed, subject of ‘Serial’ podcast, makes case for new trial Arts & Entertainment • April 13, 2015 6:42 AMApril 13, 2015 6:42 AM FOLLOW STORY Register or sign in to receive story updates. FOLLOW STORY Register or sign in to receive story updates. this is necessary because of the different way mobile…
5 Brainwashing Tricks That Work No Matter How Smart You Are Everyone is talking about Scientology again, and why not? It’s a billion-dollar cult apparently based on convincing actors they have superpowers. But there’s no reason to single them out — look around and you’ll see the world is full of people who’ve either gotten…
Atlantic Puffins. Photo: Stephan Rech/Westend61/GmbH/AlamyHere are a couple of warnings I offer, free of charge, to savvy consumers of glossy-magazine think pieces: 1) Beware rhetorical questions in headlines or subheads (e.g., “Has climate change made it harder for environmentalists to care about conservation?”) [1]; and 2) Beware paraphrased quotes in which the writer doing the paraphrasing…
Here’s what all the single ladies really want from the government — and it isn’t for a President to put a ring on it. Any questions? – Ilana Zucker-Scharff.
Hillary Clinton is expected to announce she’s officially launching a campaign for president on Sunday, formally ending two years of speculation and expectation that she would run again. Many questions remain, among them: Will she embrace President Obama’s legacy or criticize the president, and on what? How partisan will she go and how early? What…
In March, ComiXology had a buy one, get one free sale on Marvel titles, where you could literally buy any of the Marvel issues in their store. This morning they announced that, during that sale, seven out of the top ten comics sold were books with female heroes. Titles that did well include Thor, Silk, and Ms. Marvel….
The idea of trying to re-create The Rocky Horror Picture Show for network television pretty much sounds like the worst idea ever, and yet today we learned that Frank N. Furter and the denizens of Transsexual Transylvania are indeed coming to TV this fall on Fox. This year marks the 40th anniversary of The Rocky Horror Picture Show,…
Eric Gaillard/Reuters Garry Trudeau, the Pulitzer Prize-winning satirical cartoonist behind Doonesbury, says his fellow satirists at Charlie Hebdo “wandered into the realm of hate speech.” Trudeau made the remark during his acceptance speech of the George Polk Awards in Journalism, according to Peter Bale, the head of the Center for Public Integrity. “Free speech… becomes its…