“Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like - then cultivate it. That's the only part of your work that's individual and worth keeping.”
-Jean Cocteau
Writing Workshops Are Fucking Useless A Creative Writing Professor Pulls the Wool From Our Eyes
Writing Workshops Are F**king Useless
“The Wider Benefits of Choosing Life Off the Grid”
An argument that going off the grid is about a lot more than solar power and gardens.
Sydney Is Officially Home To One Of The Most Beautiful Bookshop Cafes In The World
Ampersand Café & Bookstore has been ranked among the world’s most beautiful bookshops by a prestigious global list.
Awe Is Essential When we see ourselves in the context of wonder, it makes us humbler.
How Our Brains Distinguish Reality From Imagination
We tend to think that we perceive reality as it is, with cameralike eyes that objectively log the light that hits them. But as information from the eyes flows into the brain, it becomes more abstract and subjective. - Scientific American
30 Insane Cycling World Records
THESE HUMANS (AND ONE DOG) CHALLENGE WHAT’S POSSIBLE ON TWO WHEELS.
Why Readers Love Reading Books About Books
Or actually: “Books about books, or bookstores, or people who work in bookstores, or in publishing, or in libraries, or anything book-adjacent.” - LitHub
When A Writer Starts To Lose His Words, What Happens?
“After 50 years of publishing, Munsch told me, his ability to come up with new stories seems to have vanished. ... Plots used to just appear to him, all the time and almost fully formed, as if they were limitless. But now they don’t.” - The New York Times
Daniel Day Lewis Didn’t Actually Mean He’d Retire
Sure, he said that, but what he meant was that he "just stopped doing that particular type of work so could do some other work.” - The Guardian
Death Of Fraudulent Arts Philanthropist Matthew Christopher Pietras Ruled Suicide
Matthew Christopher Pietras, a former employee of the Soros family, was found dead in his apartment the day after the Metropolitan Opera learned that his pledged $10 million donation was not his to give. New York City’s Chief Medical Examiner’s office ruled that Pietras died from an overdose of pharmaceuticals. - The New
