Search results for “joan didion”
William James on the Psychology of Habit
“We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone.”
Alan Turing’s Reading List: Books the Computing Pioneer Borrowed From His School Library
What Alice in Wonderland has to do with electromagnetic theory, relativity, and Pluto.
Resolutions for a Life Worth Living: Attainable Aspirations Inspired by Great Humans of the Past
Life-tested wisdom on how to live from James Baldwin, Ursula K. Le Guin, Leo Tolstoy, Seneca, Toni Morrison, Walt Whitman, Viktor Frankl, Rachel Carson, and Hannah Arendt.
Poet Ann Lauterbach on Why We Make Art and How Art Makes Us
“The crucial job of artists is to find a way to release materials into the animated middle ground between subjects, and so to initiate the difficult but joyful process of human connection.”
At What Point Are You Actually Dead?
The science of why you can’t resurrect a dead body but might be able to, sort of, in the future.
The First Ads for Famous Books
Because even genius needs share of voice to succeed.
User-Friendly Self-Deception: Philosopher Amélie Rorty on the Value of Our Delusions and the Antidote to the Self-Defeating Ones
“The question is: how can we sustain the illusions essential to ordinary life, without becoming self-damaging idiots?”
Orwell’s Roses: Rebecca Solnit on How Nature Sustains Us, Beauty as Fuel for Change, and the Value of the Meaningless Things That Give Our Lives Meaning
“What is it that makes it possible to do the work that is of highest value to others and one’s central purpose in life? It may appear — to others, sometimes even to oneself — trivial, irrelevant, indulgent, pointless, distracted, or any of those other pejoratives with which the quantifiable beats down the unquantifiable.”
Ray Bradbury on Storytelling, Friendship, and Why He Never Learned to Drive: A Lost Vintage Interview, Found and Animated
“You write to please yourself. You write for the joy of writing. And then your public reads you and it begins to gather around.”
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