You could actually recommend this as therapy to someone who was really in trouble: Get in a tin box, travel through Siberia, listen to ‘The Great Gatsby’ and drink red wine till you’re drunk.
This Living
Inspired by culture, cities, and technology. Powered by coffee and tea. Indebted to Dorothy Parker.
The idea that we are self-reliant is a core American myth.
In which I finally put my ongoing obsession with Joan Didion into writing…
The Last Book I Loved: Joan Didion’s ‘Slouching Towards Bethlehem’
The Last Book I Loved is an ongoing series from The Rumpus to highlight emerging Tumblr writers (and the books they love). This is the final installment of Tumblr Storyboard’s version, but you can still submit to The Rumpus for publication! Thanks for reading.
I came across a Facebook post recently in which someone offered W.B. Yeats’ poem “The Second Coming” as encouragement for a peer going through a quarter-life crisis. Things fall apart; the center cannot hold,” Yeats writes. It’s a feeling everyone has at some point, but for a twentysomething in the midst of an identity crisis, it sounded especially appropriate.
Joan Didion must have felt the same way when she chose the poem as an epigraph for her essay collection of the same name.
There’s a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
Dorothy Parker, The Paris Review interview
the Rumblr: NON-TEACHING JOBS TWITTER RECOMMENDS FOR WRITERS
Trophy spouse.
Criminal mastermind.
Front desk at an unpopular museum.
Bookseller.
Librarian.
Nurse.
Outreach/education at zoo, aquarium, or museum.
Cabdriver.
Epicure.
Salesperson in sofa or bed emporium.
Journalist.
Scuba instructor.
Combination…
The distance between medical librarian and criminal mastermind is…impressive.
The Poetry Foundation | Record-a-Poem on SoundCloud
“Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words,” said Edgar Allan Poe.
April is National Poetry Month. The Poetry Foundation is encouraging you to participate. Record your favorite poem or find some to read here. Submit to their SoundCloud group at https://soundcloud.com/groups/record-a-poem.
We want to hear your voices!
What a brilliant idea. Hmm, what to read, what to read…
(via poetrybomb)
Meanwhile, the best and the brightest are chipping away at memes, dreams and money-making schemes.
Trenchant views on the tech sector from Jeff Elder on Medium.
It wouldn’t be Boston if everybody loved it right away. That’s what makes this city so great; you can’t just come in and be accepted. You need to earn every inch.
Jon Niedzwiecki, Southie Rules
Oh, Boston. You are a special place.
Digital Diplomacy Coalition: Feb. 21: Digital Diplomacy Open House
Come and experience the world through digital diplomacy! Join representatives from embassies and international organizations in Washington at an open-house and happy hour as they showcase their work and various approaches to digital diplomacy.
From mobile apps created by…
Come join us!
Reverse footprints on my lovely snowy walk to work.
