There are several apps for that, actually, and video games as well; they’re seen as good ways to meet young people on their own ground. Alli Joseph (of the Shinnecock Indian Nation) gives a brief survey of what’s out there.
Category: words
Sales Surge After Report On Identity Of Elana Ferrante
“The sales bounce comes after a report that appeared in The New York Review of Books and other publications citing extensive documentation to show that Ferrante is likely a German-born translator living in Rome. Ferrante’s publisher has declined to confirm or deny the findings and asked that Ferrante’s privacy be respected.”
Poetry Is – By Definition – Inefficient. And That’s A Good Thing
“Both walking through a city and reading a poem are ways to thoughtfully and pleasingly disrupt the flow of time and possibly to intensify or concentrate your experience. Both constitute occasions to ignore or even disrupt the prevailing fantasies—predicated on speed—of global capitalism: efficiency, profit maximization, and productivity. A poem is by design inefficient; it’s not a set of instructions or a memo or a text. A walk is almost never the fastest way to get somewhere. But both walks and poems can afford a more textured and deep experience of space and time.”
A Cartoonist Who Used Kickstarter To Document The Lives Of Refugees In The Middle East
“Even as her friends hunted down compelling stories – here was a group of refugees living in one of Saddam’s former prisons; there was a supposedly innocent man who’d been deported from America after his name appeared in the 9/11 commission report – they always had to keep one eye pragmatically, even ruthlessly, on what might go down well at home.”
Writing A 150,000-Word Pulp Novel In A Month, To Win A Bet
“I bet you five pounds that you can’t write a 150,000-word novel in one month. If you do it, you get the five quid and I publish the book. If you don’t, I get a fiver off you, and I have to go back to publishing local poets. I hate local poets. In fact, I hate all poets. And all poetry. I have a long-standing and deeply entrenched hostility to the form.”
By Following The Money, An Italian Journalist May Have Tracked Down The Identity Of Elena Ferrante
“But after a months-long investigation it is now possible to make a powerful case for Ferrante’s true identity. Far from the daughter of a Neapolitan seamstress described in Frantumaglia, new revelations from real estate and financial records point to … a Rome-based translator whose German-born mother fled the Holocaust and later married a Neapolitan magistrate.”
Portland’s Real-Life Feminist Bookstore (And Community Space) Tells Portlandia Off
“The store says that none of its current board and staff members were involved in the original decision to allow Portlandia to film inside the store six years ago, and that the ‘small flat fee per episode filmed’ doesn’t cover its lost profits.”
The Bookstore That Found Out Exactly How Much Its Community Appreciated It
“Today, the book community now reaches beyond publishers, bookstores, state lines, or any other arbitrary limits. That is how people from Ohio and Massachusetts can cross another book off their To Be Read pile by poking through our online store, because we are part of the book community which has no borders.”
Is It Possible To Read A Book ‘The Wrong Way’?
Adam Kirsch: “The more you think about it, the less obvious it is that any use of a book can be ruled out in advance.”
Anna Holmes: “If we’re interested in figuring out what’s wrong about reading, we might be better off determining what’s right and working backward from there.”
The Jewish-American Accent Fascinates Linguists
“But is really a religious or ethnic thing? Can we call it a ‘Jewish accent’ rather than, say, a ‘New York accent’? Scholars say, yes, there is an American Jewish accent, but it’s complicated.”