If you read just one thing today, read this excerpt from my @parisreview interview with #RayBradbury. Today is Bradbury’s birthday and this story has one of the best endings EVER. #inspiration pic.twitter.com/52iSLwVeZ2
— Sam Weller (@Sam__Weller) August 23, 2024

That Time Wallace Stevens Punched Ernest Hemingway in the Face

Y'all. Seriously.

Hardly anyone even understands the unbelievable depth of Tolkien's linguistic genius. If ever there was an artist just straight up making jokes that only he would ever get, omg. So get this, it's epic.

You know the "Brandywine River" in Lord of the Rings?
— isaacs (@izs) August 8, 2024

We fact-checked Trump’s recent news conference : NPR

Scientists Call Plastiglomerate, The Emergence Of Plastic Rocks, An Ecological Disaster In The Making

If the spacesuit is the symbol of progress, the gas mask is the sign of the apocalypse. In popular culture it signifies that science has turned against us. It's the face of dystopia.

Today in pulp I look at the culture of the mask! pic.twitter.com/659Z7RuGp8
— Pulp Librarian (@PulpLibrarian) August 13, 2024

Review: Matthew McConaughey’s Pantalones Tequila

https://www.texasmonthly.com/travel/pronghorn-texas-fastest-mammal

https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/jun/10/martin-amis-tina-brown-memorial-service-novelist

How I Made Google’s “Web” View My Default Search

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/21/africa/toba-supervolcano-early-human-migration-africa-scn/index.html

Sydney Sweeney on Fame, Euphoria, and the Pressure of Paying the Bills

World’s oldest fossilised trees discovered along Devon and Somerset coast | Palaeontology | The Guardian