An important bill that aimed to protect the free speech rights of Indiana student journalists and limit censorship by school administrators has failed in the State House. splc.org/article/2018/0…

"What I wish for now is no longer happiness but simply awareness." Beautiful wisdom from Camus: brainpickings.org/2015/11/30/alb…

French novel: I can't decide who to fuck. British novel: I can't decide who to marry. Russian novel: I can't decide who to kill.

“I rewrite a lot before I show things to people. I like to have a manuscript in more or less its final shape before anyone sees it. That doesn’t mean I can spell.” —Margaret Atwood theparisreview.org/interviews/226…

No one tell them.

"I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day." - James Joyce

“I’d planned to die at thirty, and then I’d push it on ten years, forty, and then fifty. You always push it on. And then you go on and on and on.” —Jean Rhys theparisreview.org/interviews/338…

Sometimes it takes something bad for something good to happen.

Watching Corbyn's Brexit speech - my impression is he outlined many problems with leaving the EU and identified no benefits. I wanted him to tell me what the point of leaving is, in his view, beyond taking note of a slim majority vote a couple of years ago. He didn't.

“Painters have often taught writers how to see.” —James Baldwin theparisreview.org/interviews/299…

What is the meaning of life? Sartre: to be free. Camus: to rebel. Kierkegaard: to have faith. Nietzsche: to become yourself. Beckett: I can't remember, but it was something good.

“The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to the dream.” —Joan Didion theparisreview.org/interviews/343…

The most Canadian headline you’ll see today.

This could completely change how we treat diabetes. futurism.com/scientists-mov…

Neutrinos remain the most interesting elementary particles in nature, at least for me, and perhaps also the most likely to provide some experimental direction in the search for new fundamental physics beyond the Standard Model. physics.aps.org/articles/v11/3…

“The joke is the purest, most essential form of storytelling. Every word has to count.” —Paul Auster theparisreview.org/interviews/121…

“A Number of Reasons I’ve Been Depressed Lately,” an essay by David Sedaris, the recipient of our 2018 Terry Southern Prize for Humor theparisreview.org/blog/2017/06/0…

Oh btw I’m building a cyborg dragon

A lawyer with 3 clients and 16 cell phones sounds totally legit .

“On the whole, I don’t want to think too much about why I write what I write.” —Joan Didion theparisreview.org/interviews/343…