Italy! 🇮🇹 Wow! #UnitedByEmotion #Tokyo2020 #StrongerTogether

“I’m grateful for the lessons one learns from great writers, but also from imperialists, sexists, friends, lovers, oppressors, revolutionaries—everybody. Everybody has something to teach a writer.” —Arundhati Roy theparisreview.org/interviews/781…

"Consider our whole galaxy staked in place by a single star. I fear we haven’t said nearly enough about that." Kaveh Akbar, An Oversight theparisreview.org/poetry/7788/an…

"There is nothing more terrible than waiting for the terrible. I promise. Was the grief worth the poem? No, but you don’t interrogate a weed for what it does with wreckage. For what it’s done to get here." -- Hala Alyan newyorker.com/magazine/2021/…

Once you reach Level 2 you can play mix and match. Erica Lies, "A Taxonomy of Migraines" newyorker.com/humor/daily-sh… via The New Yorker

A small hamlet between Brisighella and Marradi is where I grew up (and where Dante's words indeed are part of everyone's everyday language). It warms my heart to read about it on the The Washington Post. ❤

Tell me you got lucky without telling me you got lucky. #Wordle214 Wordle 214 2/6 ⬛⬛🟩⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

"[...] rather than trying to “fix” female founders, the VC industry needs to do the much harder work of fixing itself."

"a translation isn’t finished until all the answers are present and correct, with each conditioning the others. But when it comes to literature, there is rarely ever just one solution, and my job is to test as many as possible." The Art of Translation nytimes.com/interactive/20…

—Andrea Gibson, Letter to the Editor .Andrea Gibson Via .The Slowdown slowdownshow.org/episode/2023/1…

"Many interesting things have happened to adult me, but in the opinion of teen-age me there is only one real event in our lives and it occurred on the sixteenth of April, 1993, when I fell thirty feet from my bedroom window." newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…

"I thought gravity was a law, which meant it could be broken. But it’s more like a language. Once you’re in it you never get out. " newyorker.com/magazine/2024/….