Avatartaycfranflipped into PicksFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoHow To Think, According To This Winner Of The Brain Prizehuffingtonpost.com - Nico Pitney”Synthesize new ideas constantly. Never read passively. Annotate, model, think, and synthesize while you read, even when you’re reading what you …
Avatartaycfranflipped into PicksAvatarAvatarThe Surprising Benefits of Hating Everythingverified_publisherVICE - Lauren OylerEssayist Mark Greif's new book 'Against Everything' doesn't tell you how to live, but it does encourag Photo courtesy of Penguin Random House Intellectuals get a bad rap. Long gone are the days when you could call up your favorite poet/theorist for a night of discussing German philosophy over …
Avatartaycfranflipped into PicksFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoHuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World Newshuffingtonpost.comThe agency is emphasizing that people should still try to prevent infections in the first place, by getting vaccinated, washing their hands, and …
Avatartaycfranflipped into PicksAvatarAvatar20 Vital Breakfast Spots to Jumpstart Your Day in Austinverified_publisherEater - Nadia ChaudhuryBreakfast is the first meal and perhaps the best meal of the day, and Austin has it down pat. The city’s morning array includes breakfast tacos, pancakes, plates of migas, sausages, biscuits, and so much more. Here are Austin’s best breakfast restaurants, which means diner classics from the …
Avatartaycfranflipped into PicksAvatarAvatarInfinite Jest at 20: still a challenge, still brilliantverified_publisherThe Guardian - Emma-Lee MossThe first of February saw the 20th anniversary of a work considered by many to have changed the rules of fiction: David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest. Last year, having never progressed beyond the book’s first chapter, I decided to mark this occasion with a personal commitment: by midnight on its …
Avatartaycfranflipped into PicksAvatarAvatarQuicksand by Henning Mankell review – uplifting, serious reflections on what it means to be humanverified_publisherThe Guardian - John BurnsideIn January 2014, Henning Mankell was diagnosed with lung cancer. This came as a surprise: a non-smoker for many years, Mankell had recently been in a car accident and attributed the pain he was suffering to the aftereffects of the crash – but, as he notes, in the opening pages of Quicksand, “The …
Avatartaycfranflipped into PicksAvatarAvatar15 Excellent Austin Dive Barsverified_publisherEater - Melanie Haupt and Nadia ChaudhuryAvoid fussy cocktail bars and opt for a watering hole with no pretenses or airs: a dive bar, where the only goal is to embrace a less polished atmosphere with drinks and beer neon. Austin is full of such bars, which excel at keeping it truly weird: dark watering holes with cheap beer and shots, wild …
Avatartaycfranflipped into PicksAvatarAvatarCharles Bukowski's guide to writing and lifeThe Telegraph - Martin Chilton,"I am a dangerous man when turned loose with a typewriter," said Charles Bukowski, the author of more than 40 books of poetry, prose and novels, including Ham on Rye and Post Office. Bukowski, who died on March 9, 1994, aged 73, used his poetry and prose to depict the depravity of urban life in …
Avatartaycfranflipped into PicksFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoTexas Without Syrian and Lebanese Refugees Would Not Be Texastexasmonthly.com - John Nova LomaxGovernor Greg Abbott insists he has the power to bar Syrian refugees from settling in Texas. While that contention is debatable—as is the legality of …
Avatartaycfranflipped into PicksAvatarAvatarBetween BooksThe Paris Review - Sadie SteinI am between books. It’s a very uncomfortable place to be. On the one hand, after finishing something good and thought provoking, you don’t necessarily want to move on too quickly—you want to digest and mourn the loss and crave the comfort of its world. You miss the characters. It would feel …