No one is going to read it! Go crazy. Get nuts. Prince said it first: We're all excited. We don't know why. Maybe it's because we're all going to die

I will always read about celebrities not earning out their advances. Excellent piece all around.

What a beautiful exchange.

Is... Macklemore??... about to kick off a round of protest songs?

Lol, volunteer reporters.

Love this piece, Sam.

big secret to happiness is just liking stuff. finding more stuff to like. finding ways to like stuff you didn’t before. recognizing what it feels like to like something and doubling down on that. what feels frivolous is actually the whole ballgame

Thank you, Lady Leverage.

Stormy did it.

From Mary Magdalene on down, never underestimate a sex worker. #verdict

Please god say there's footage of them saying guilty 34 times.

In the late 1990s, Julia Hill climbed a 200 foot (61 meters) approximately 1000-year-old Californian redwood tree & didn't come down for another 738 days. She ultimately reached an agreement with Pacific Lumber Company to spare the tree & a 200-foot buffer zone surrounding the

i think what’s craziest to me about the Alice Munro news is that her daughter took that abuser to court nearly 20 years ago, but it was so thoroughly dismissed by her fans at the time that it’s the first time an entire generation of readers is hearing about it

'Hopefulness is not a neutral position. It is adversarial. It is the warrior emotion that can lay waste to cynicism. Each redemptive or loving act, as small as you like – such as reading to your little boy... keeps the Devil down in the hole.' Nick Cave.

sure I guess you *could* get an MFA, orrrrr you could just take a minute with this paragraph on Sharon Olds

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