“Tea has started wars and ruined lives; we should be wary of its consolations.” On the problem with tea.
Cuppa?
Bread, Bread, Bread
From "Insufficient Milk And Restraint" to "Eating Berries While Pretending To Be A Monk To Make Hunger And Desperation Feel Like A Game," here is every meal from Jane Eyre ranked in terms of severity.
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“A big furry fish in a tiny barrel”
As a young girl in the 1980s, Melissa Carroll played with My Little Pony dolls, in part because, as she puts it, "I knew I'd better have one." Nearly thirty years on, she's fascinated by the new surge of interest in the dolls, especially the interest displayed by the men who call themselves Bronies. At The Rumpus, her Sunday essay on the rise of the Brony and gender dynamics in America.
“Nature” Is What We See–
"[Emily] Dickinson is often portrayed as some white gossamer recluse, completely divorced from the world outside her bedroom—but that is not really true. The physical circumference of her adult life was small, but its psychological terrain was boundless." This piece explores the ways in which Emily Dickinson's work was shaped by her skills as a gardener and naturalist.
Findings
Is Findings.com a "social network that may actually make you smarter”?
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New Covers for Anticipated Books
A couple more highly anticipated fall books now have cover art. J.K. Rowling's post-Harry Potter effort The Casual Vacancy features a simple, bold design. And the cover of Ian McEwan's Sweet Tooth is a throwback to the design motifs of several decades ago.
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Sterling Cooper Draper Time
"According to the biography, Hadden designed the fact-checking system with the thought that putting a male writer and a female researcher together in a quasi-adversarial situation would create a sexual dynamic that could lend energy to the process." Calvin Trillin's memories of the Time offices in the early 1960s are at times more Mad Men than Mad Men.
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