How’s your NCAA bracket doing? Busted? Well, maybe you should’ve picked your teams based on which ones turn the highest profit. The Atlantic analyzed the financial data and, voilà, their bracket correctly predicted nine of the teams in the Sweet Sixteen.
Go Cardinals?
John Cage, Silence
Don't listen to John Cage's 4'33" while you read Marjorie Perloff's article on the 50th anniversary of Silence. It could be a distraction.
Fish N a Barrel
The Vault chooses the "20 Worst Hip-Hop Album Covers". Sorry, South Coast Shorty.
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“Let me eat it all and let me eat it now!”
"McDonald’s, I am here and I am hungry, feed me, let me eat it all and let me eat it now! Oh, what a hymn, what a hallelujah you sing to me, two all beef patties special sauce lettuce cheese pickles onions on a sesame seed bun." Michael Murray imagines "Jack Kerouac's Lost Restaurant Reviews" for Hazlitt and they are absolute joys.
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What Katy Meant
Recommended Reading: Lindsay Palka's essay on the children's book What Katy Did.
Kindle Price Drop
Amazon's response to the iPad? The pricetag for a Kindle has just dropped to $189.
The World Outside
Recommended Reading: Jesse Barron on Matthew Crawford’s The World Beyond Your Head.
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