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The ever-curious and always bestselling Mary Roach takes us down the hatch on an unforgettable tour of our insides. The …
Triangulum is an ambitious, often philosophical and genre-bending novel that covers a period of over …
It’s a strange mix of South African, social history across generations, William Gibson style speculative fiction, coming-of-age novel, and deep exploration of mental health.
But it works. Very well. I could not stop reading.
Triangulum is an ambitious, often philosophical and genre-bending novel that covers a period of over 40 years in South Africa’s …
Triangulum is an ambitious, often philosophical and genre-bending novel that covers a period of over 40 years in South Africa’s …
This book, ostensibly a philosophy of craft as art, it’s also a polemic for understanding and hat craft is a tool for discovering one’s inner truths. It has so many interesting ideas but is written so poorly that it’s easy to lose them in the mess of dangling clauses and mixed metaphors. When I did catch what she was trying to say, I didn’t know his agree with her, but it made me think.
A craft is not its objects; a craft is how I am when I am making them (and eventually, one would dearly hope, how I am the rest of the time, as a result of what has been transformed in me through craftsmanship).
— The work of craft by Carla Needleman (Page 123)
I found large parts of the history of college radio, and its intersection with NPR and increasing wattage, and why it’s always to the left of the dial fascinating. But every chapter seems to repeat a bunch of ideas and context in a way that got a little bit repetitive. Might’ve been better if it was half as long, more to the point more Ramones punk and less variations on a theme.
Memories, Dreams, Reflections (German: Erinnerungen, Träume, Gedanken) is a partially autobiographical book by Swiss psychologist Carl Jung and an associate, …
Memories, Dreams, Reflections (German: Erinnerungen, Träume, Gedanken) is a partially autobiographical book by Swiss psychologist Carl Jung and an associate, …
What does it mean to be lonely? How do we live, if we're not intimately …
Fascinating mixture of art criticism and psychology and memoir. I’m not sure I’m always 100% on board with her analysis, but the through line of the book, of loneliness being a driver and shaper of lives rings true.
What does it mean to be lonely? How do we live, if we're not intimately engaged with another human being? …
The craft, moreover, does not apply to ordinary life but to the extraordinary-the life of study. The pot, for example, goes through the fire and is transformed. I do not know what this means. There is no parallel in my life. It may be that there can be. But I will not learn about fire by thinking about fire but by burning.
— The work of craft by Carla Needleman (Page 23)
Dip below the ocean’s surface and you are soon confronted by forms of life that could not seem more foreign …
