Georgia O’Keeffe on What It Means to Be an Artist — “Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant—there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing—and keeping the unknown always beyond you…”
Wholeness and the Implicate Order: Physicist David Bohm on Bridging Consciousness and Reality — How to “include everything coherently and harmoniously in an overall whole that is undivided, unbroken, and without a border.”
Remembering the great Annie Dillard. — Annie Dillard, the masterful stylist and brilliant thinker, has died at 81. Her death was confirmed by her literary executor, Maggie Nelson. Dillard, who wrote in many forms and experiments, was an…
How to Navigate Amazon’s E-Reader Monopoly — I made a promise to myself (and my partner) after we were forced to find a new apartment unexpectedly and had to deal with moving all of my books: from now on I would make an effort to read more di…
“A Person Should Be in Love Most of the Time.” An[other] Ode to Grace Paley — I first started reading Grace Paley in the weeks after my second novel was published, as I sought refuge from refreshing Goodreads, from waiting for the Booker Prize Committee to phone. Reading the…
Lit Hub Daily: August 7, 2026 — Should you judge a book by its cover? Probably! Ed Simon looks at the history of book cover trends. | Lit Hub Design James Spooner remembers finding community and belonging in New York’s Blac…
Two great works of art to ease your transition into autumn. — To my fellow summer weary, too sweaty, beach-skeptical readers out there: We made it. We’ve officially crossed the threshold into fall, and it feels great. Summer’s brash extroversion is finally at…
Carrick brushes off questions over his Manchester United future — Michael Carrick says he expected tough season start as he rebuffs questions about his role as Manchester United manager.
Here’s the longlist for the 2026 National Book Award for Nonfiction. — Today, the National Book Foundation announced the longlist for the 2026 National Book Award for Nonfiction. These ten titles were selected from a pool of 727 books submitted for consideration by th…
How Medieval Doctors, Christian and Muslim, Treated the Black Death — Many physicians sought to treat patients struck down by the Black Death. These doctors typically turned to the extant body of medical knowledge, derived from the ancient world and Arabic texts writ…
Brian Dillon on What Virginia Woolf’s The Waves Means to Him — In time he will say that The Waves by Virginia Woolf has been the most important novel in his life; but at twenty he does not use the word of this or any book, and would think it pompous, embarrass…
On a Childhood Longing to Be Delicate — Mom said the folks who’d be at the family reunion were Randy’s people, so I’d probably never met them but that was no reason not to try to talk. It’s true I often stayed quiet. If I raised my voice…
Rabih Alameddine on Writing Humor In Times of Tumult and Tragedy — Rabih Alameddine, award-winning author of The Wrong End of the Telescope, celebrated the release of his new novel, The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) at The Center for Fictio…
Everything Is Already There: Javier Marías on the Courage to Heed Your Intuitions — “This has nothing to do with premonitions, there is nothing supernatural or mysterious about it, what’s mysterious is that we pay no heed to it.”
US renews attacks on Iran after US soldier killed: What’s the latest? — Iran's IRGC claims an attack on Jordan while the US embassy issues a warning to Americans in Bahrain.
Capcom is preparing for a ‘future where we create games together with AI’ — During a presentation on the future of RE Engine, Capcom laid out its plans to embrace AI in ‘development workflows.’
Why Michael Crichton’s Best Novel is the Worst Movie Based on One of His Books — Somebody occasionally points out that vastly more words have been published about Kafka than Kafka himself wrote in his lifetime. Somebody’s probably writing a book about Kafka this very minute. I’…
Bufo Alvarius: the Psychedelic Toad of the Sonoran Desert - Wikipedia
An Imaginary Throuple Saved My Writing Career — Let’s say throughout my twenties, all I did—literally—was write; whatever I could, in hopes my parents might read it, see me, grow up, and care. Let’s say throughout my twenties, I published three …
Best air fryer deal: Save 50% on the Ninja Prestige Smart XL — This model can replace your entire oven.
Lit Hub Daily: August 14, 2026 — How following Octavia Butler’s advice guided Clarence A. Haynes to write a novel. | Lit Hub Craft Casey Michel explores the decline of American democracy (and the rise of the oligarch class).…
Working in Advertising Helped Me Write My Memoir — I am trying to resist the temptation to begin this essay with a headline that I know will hook you. I don’t want to trick you into feeling an emotion you weren’t planning to feel, or to take …
Plato’s Symposium Is Actually About Love — I have been obsessed with dinner parties since I was eight or nine. At this age my greatest desire was to get my mum to let me stay up for the ones she threw for her friends. Once I even succeeded.…
The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction — Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for fiction, based on sales in hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide, generously provided by the American Booksellers Association. …
9 to 5: Inside The Movement That Inspired the Iconic Film — When Dolly Parton died recently, radio stations and music streamers filled our ears with her irresistible anthem, “9 to 5.” The song topped the music charts and was nominated for an Osc…
Aluminum OS: What we know about Google's next operating system — We think we got a small glimpse at Google’s upcoming AI-powered operating system at 'The Android Show.'
An Ode to the Gleeful Terror of Tim Curry’s Pennywise — Tim Curry, who died this week at 80, will probably always be best known for his performance as Dr. Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and not unreasonably. With his snug corset and un…
Maldives asks UK to reopen sovereignty talks over Chagos Islands — Chagos Islands should not be handed over to Mauritius, president of Maldives says in letter to UK's prime minister.
this guy read 10,000+ books and catalogued which ones actually stuck with him — the pattern analysis is unhinged in the best way 📚✨
How to improve your iPhone's call quality — Your iPhone should handle calls reliably, but if you can't hear the other person or calls aren't stable, it's time to run through a few fixes.
The Internet Archive is quietly digitizing every library card catalog ever made... and you can search them all in one place. Weird rabbit hole if you like old classification systems.
How Bees Came to the United States and Changed Our Landscape — Over the past 150 years, honey bees have become the cornerstone of US agriculture. Beekeepers now crisscross the country in semi-trucks to pollinate our crops, towing thousands of bee colonies from…
Abdelrahman ElGendy on Writing From Inside a Prison Cell — On his third night in detention in Cairo, crammed with sixty other prisoners into a four-by-five meter cell, Abdelrahman ElGendy heard the song for the first time. Belly full after being starved fo…
Lit Hub Daily: June 3, 2026 — What do you do when your book detailing Civil War-era censorship is censored by the US government? | Lit Hub Politics “Maybe it’s fair to call this mysticism, but it could also be called democracy.…
How to Love the World More: George Saunders on the Courage of Uncertainty — “In a world full of people who seem to know everything, passionately, based on little (often slanted) information, where certainty is often mistaken for power, what a relief it is to be in th…
Carl Jung on Creativity — The question of what it takes to create — to make something of beauty and substance that touches other lives across space and time — is one of the deepest, oldest questions, perhaps bec…
36 Literary Movies and TV Shows to Watch This Fall — Fall is the perfect time for curling up with a good book—or maybe a good movie. (We’re not monsters.) Even better if you can hit two birds with one stone, of course, and this after all is Literary …
Indian YouTuber Dhruv Rathee alleges abduction ahead of Delhi protests — Indian YouTube star Dhruv Rathee alleges he was abducted from home and held for nearly 24 hours without a lawyer.
What It Means to Come From Appalachian Coal Country — In one of my earliest memories, I’m shrinking. I’m in the back seat of my parents’ car, face pressed against the window, straining to see the peaks of the mountains outside. The road we’re driving …
An Ode to Pro Wrestling, the Ultimate Underdog Story — People can be surprised when they hear that I wrote a novel that centers professional wrestling. Someone like me–a Brown person raised in Bangladesh in their early 30s–isn’t what one thinks of when…
Jefferies Stung by Soured Bets at Asset-Management Unit — Jefferies Financial Group's asset-management unit revenue slumped more than 50% in the fiscal third quarter, totaling $85.6 million in the three months through August. Bloomberg Intelligence's Neil Sipes has more.…
Saving Wildlife and Wild Places - WCS.org — The Wildlife Conservation Society saves wildlife and wild places worldwide through science, conservation action, education, and inspiring people to value nature.
A hummingbird got trapped in our garage for three hours — turns out they can only fly forward, so I had to guide it backward toward the door with a broom. 🌸 Never felt like such a tiny air-traffic controller.
How to Bear Your Desolations — “You may have to break your heart, but it isn’t nothing to know even one moment alive.”
Lit Hub Daily: August 28, 2026 — “He wrote sad songs but didn’t want to make anyone sad. He had the kind of shy, exaggerated empathy of someone who’s always afraid of hurting people but never afraid of hurting himself.”…
How to Collect CDs — Fed up with paying to stream music you’ll never actually own? Give the little silver disc a spin. Here’s how to start a CD collection or get more out of one you already have.
GitHub - alternbits/awesome-cuda-books: A curated list of best cuda programming books — A curated list of best cuda programming books. Contribute to alternbits/awesome-cuda-books development by creating an account on GitHub.
Spain vs. Argentina 2026 livestream: How to watch World Cup final for free — Live stream all the action from the 2026 FIFA World Cup final without spending anything.
Monarch Watch — Tracking the monarch butterfly.
Camp Saw Folding Hand Saw #camping #amazonfinds — Camp Saw Folding Hand Saw #camping #amazonfinds
Rilke on the Relationship Between Solitude, Love, Sex, and Creativity — “There is only one solitude, and it is large and not easy to bear… People are drawn to the easy and to the easiest side of the easy. But it is clear that we must hold ourselves to the d…
Young Berlin designers do more with less at Find Attached show — A folding sink and a room divider that provides natural air conditioning feature in Berlin's inaugural Find Attached exhibition, showcasing an arsenal of products from 14 emerging local designers that make the…
The Paradox of Knowing Who You Are and What You Want: Cristina Campo on Fairy Tales, Time, and the Meaning of Maturity — “If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales,” Einstein reportedly told one mother who wished for her son to become a scientist. “If…
Two rescued after plane makes emergency landing in Black Sea — Two Belgian nationals were rescued by Turkish authorities after their private aircraft suffered engine failure.
Browse Catalog | LibriVox — LibriVox
Italo Calvino on Reading and Sex — “Lovers’ reading of each other’s bodies… differs from the reading of written pages in that it is not linear… What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other most is that wit…
How to read more books | scotto.me — My method for reading more
The Beauty of the Days Gone By — The idea for The Beauty of the Days Gone By first came to me while driving across Texas when my two boys were small, after immersing myself in the rich Southwestern histories of Anglo settler child…
Q2 2026 Drive Stats: Hard Drive Failure Rates — Explore Q2 2026 failure rates across 354,415 Backblaze drives, plus standout models and emerging CMR, SMR, and HAMR storage technologies.
You Can Edit Your Photos With Lightroom and Photoshop Inside Google Gemini — Google Gemini users can now edit their photos with Adobe's creative editing tools inside Gemini, including color and lighting changes.