“Our contemporary analogues to the personal notebook now live on the web — communal, crowdsourced and shared online in real time.” Jenna Wortham writes on how archiving the Internet would change history. We’ve written about the implications of the Internet more than once.
Archiving the Internet
Everyone Came to Elaine’s
New York Magazine breaks down the 100+ framed book covers that bedecked the walls at the late, great literary hangout, Elaine’s. Selections range from Bob Newhart to Renata Adler to George Plimpton (natch).
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“The heat of autumn / is different from the heat of summer.”
With the help of Flora Coker, the Poetry Foundation created an animated reading of Jane Hirshfield’s “The Heat of Autumn.”
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Undine Spragg: Edith Wharton’s Best Antiheroine
In her introduction to Edith Wharton's The Custom of the Country, Jia Tolentino paints Undine Spragg as an easily relatable antiheroine.
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