Here’s a fascinating article by Aatish Bhatia about “how we gave colors names, and it messed with our brains.” Grab a seat; this is a good one.
On Colors and the Mind
The World According to Zadie
The first reviews of Zadie Smith's new collection of essays, Changing My Mind, are in and the general line's a non-committal, guarded praise. I think it's wunderkind jealousy, myself. Voici: The L.A Times review and The San Francisco Chronicle review.
Against Writers’ Houses
April Bernard is not a fan of Writers' Houses because she does not believe the "private life, even of the dead, is ours to plunder." Earlier this year, our own Luke Epplin also noted some of the limitations of Writers' Houses.
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The Graveyard Movie
Neil Gaiman’s 2009 Newbery medal winner, The Graveyard Book, was originally supposed to be adapted into an animated film. Now, however, it looks like Ron Howard might take the project’s reins and shoot it in live action.
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Why?
Jesse Eisenberg’s nephew has a few questions for him in The New Yorker. Listen to Eisenberg read a piece of his new book, Bream Gives Me Hiccups, and face existential doubt in Shouts and Murmurs.
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Gore Vidal Died
Gore Vidal has died at the age of 86. The prominent author, screenwriter, Norman Mailer-nemesis and political activist published 25 novels, two memoirs and many, many essay volumes in addition to plays, screenplays, and television scripts. For a time, he even loaned his own visage to the silver screen, as Mindy Hung recently pointed out on our site.