Oh No He Didn’t
Comicanon
In Other Words, All of America
Would you prefer to live in a city designed around parking, or a city designed around food?
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No Wonder They Spend More Time, Then
Are these two statistics linked? According to a Pew Internet Libraries study, 30% of those "who read e-content say they now spend more time reading," and according to studies cited on CreativePro, people can read printed text read "25% faster than on-screen text."
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Needs More Pigs
The archives of the British Library have been digitized, and among many other gems is this rejection of George Orwell's Animal Farm by none other than T.S. Eliot, himself: “And after all, your pigs are far more intelligent than the other animals, and therefore the best qualified to run the farm – in fact, there couldn’t have been an Animal Farm at all without them: so that what was needed (someone might argue), was not more communism but more public-spirited pigs.”
Poetry As a Response to Sexual Violence
"Most poems are rooted in a powerful emotion. With visuals and details of violence against women being flashed every second on TV and debated by different groups, it is only natural that such incidents become themes in our writing," says Bindya Subba, who is one of several Indian poets writing response pieces to the recent rape incidents in Delhi and Mumbai.