I’ve told you about The Atlantic’s By Heart series plenty of times before. This week brings us novelist Paul Lisicky taking a close look at how Flannery O’Connor’s “flawed” characters are the ones we find ourselves drawn to most.
A Good Character Is Hard To Find
Joe Kubert Dies at 85
Joe Kubert died this week at the age of 85. Perhaps best known as the DC comics legend responsible for such characters as Sgt. Rock, Hawkman, Enemy Ace, and Tor, Kubert was also the founder of The Kubert School, the only accredited trade school for comic book artists in the country. You can check out a video of Kubert talking about digital comics over here.
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The Mediated Games.
With the close of the London 2012 Olympic Games come the media think pieces, including this one from The Atlantic, which collects some of its best memes. And this one, on the use of the gif in digital sports coverage, in the Nieman Journalism Lab, and here's Kevin Nguyen championing BuzzFeed for their Olympics coverage. Also, The Spice Girls.
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Boys
Rest assured, fellow Millennials: even Balzac had to intern.
Walking with David Mitchell
The new David Mitchell novel, The Bone Clocks, ends in rural Ireland, which explains why Kathryn Schulz chose to interview Mitchell on a walk through the Irish countryside. At Vulture, she talks with Mitchell about supercontinents, writing in childhood and the global scope of his work. You could also read the story Mitchell recently wrote on Twitter.
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First Steps
Can a book prepare you for motherhood? A reader asks this question in the Match Book column in the Times.
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Useable Objects
Recommended Reading: This piece from The Atlantic on Marie Kondo and the "privilege of clutter." While you're at it, go and read our own Janet Potter's experience with Kondo's wildly popular The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up.
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