Recommended Reading: This bizarre little story by Diane Williams as recommended by Deb Olin Unferth at Electric Literature. The story can be found in Williams’ recently published collection of stories Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine.
No Slight Thing
I’m the Best One Here
If, while sitting in a writing class, you’ve ever looked around at your classmates and thought, “Dear Lord, these people are navel-gazers,” you might want to know that British researchers have found evidence that you were right.
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Open and Shut
The Culturephiles want to put the kibosh on the "open letter" bit. What better way to tackle that than with an open letter.
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Lost Ideas
Remember that story you were going to write about your neighbor's dog but never did? When you're a writer, you have to know when to ditch both the bad and good ideas. At The Atlantic, Bob Brody laments all the stories he'll never write and concludes: "It’s taken me a long time to learn this—that sometimes the best course of action is inaction."
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Project Yosemite
Sheldon Neill and Colin Delehanty's Project Yosemite is "an ongoing adventure to timelapse Yosemite in a extreme way." Their first video is (ahem) extremely beautiful.
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Santa, my Liege
At McSweeney's, Shakespearean letters to Santa.
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Back to School
Need your monthly dose of Hilary Mantel? The two-time Booker Prize winner has a new story in the London Review of Books (which you can read at their website). The story is a nice complement to our interview with the author from last year.
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