Brief Encounters
Crash Course
Koa Beck’s father gave her a copy of Erica Jong’s Fear of Flying when she was 15 years old. Depending on your persuasion, this was either a brilliant idea or an awful parental blunder. Regardless, Beck says the book (aided by The Bell Jar and Diary of a Mad Housewife) helped her understand that “the game was rigged, that everyone was lying, [and] that there was so much more to being a woman than what society said there was.”
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The Next Language to Try
We’d been planning to brush up on our French, Swahili, and Klingon this summer, but a new contender might just grab us away. You can now learn to speak Dothraki – a fictional tongue from George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Fire and Ice series and the hit TV show Game of Thrones – with this $18 software course. Next: High Valyrian?
The Gallery of Lost Art
The Gallery of Lost Art is “an online exhibition that tells the stories of artworks that have disappeared,” and my-oh-my is it a doozy of an internet diversion.
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Menswear and Books
Jason Diamond looks at why “books are in [such] abundant supply in the menswear world.”
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Lit Reactor’s Literary Tattoo Contest
Do you have literary ink? No, not that kind. We’re talking tattoos. Lit Reactor wants to see your Moby-Dick-themed tramp stamps, and your Le Petit Prince-themed bicep tats.
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