Recommended Viewing: Alejandro Cartagena’s photo series, “The Car Poolers.”
What’s In the Trunk?
Wiesel in Disney
Something to brighten your day — Elie Wiesel visited Disneyland and absolutely loved it.
Notebook on Cities and Words
“We believe in the digital with abandon. So when something of artisanal quality is placed in our hands, or we see something hanging on a wall drawn by an actual hand, we feel a little shock. We remember how to feel something. Maybe not quite an emotion, but the touch of paper does something to us. We use our senses again.” Celebrating fifty years of the French publisher L’école des Loisirs, Gnaomi Siemens reflects on the power of hand-drawn images and the future of the book.
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Sanity Is a Construct
Recommended Perusing: This list from Electric Literature of six contemporary innovators of the short story. From Lorrie Moore to Alejandro Zambra, it is some seriously good company.
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Appearing Elsewhere
German readers of The Millions, if you’re out there (or people with friends in Germany): I’ll be reading in Munich, Hamburg, and Berlin this week from Ein Naturführer der amerikanischen familie. Please come!
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On a Different Note
And now for something completely different, a book review of Shaq’s new memoir.
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Great series of photos. Mexicans are the hardest working people I know and willing to put up with a lot of inconveniences.
Johanna van Zanten