Too bad. You're simply going to have to make more time in your life for reading. Because this roundup has more than 30 additional recent links that come with the Papergreat Seal of Approval. Have fun diving in! And if you come across something cool, send a tweet to @Papergreat.
Books & reading
- Los Angeles Review of Books: "Abbie Wilson on Hagelbarger and That Nightmare Goat"
- The New York Review of Books: "Reading: The Struggle" by Tim Parks. ... [Excerpt: "The conditions in which we read today are not those of fifty or even thirty years ago, and the big question is how contemporary fiction will adapt to these changes, because in the end adapt it will. No art form exists independently of the conditions in which it is enjoyed."]
- Uncorked Thoughts: "Top Ten Books I've Read So Far This Year" by Leah Woods
- Book Riot: "How Old is an 'Old' Book?" by Rachel Cordasco
- Multo (Ghost): "Trese: A Filipina Occult Detective Comics Series"
- PolicyMic: "These Are the Last of America's Dying Feminist Bookstores" by Senti Sojwal
- BookTrib: "Conversation with William Least Heat-Moon on Writing Blue Highways and creative courage" by Michael Ruscoe
Language
- The Wall Street Journal: "The Slugfest, From Boxing To Benghazi" by Ben Zimmer
- Medium: "The 'Amazing': What our ranking adjective says about us" by Virginia Heffernan
- LA Weekly: "At the World Pun Championships, Victory Is Easier Said Than Punned" by Zachary Pincus-Roth
Miscellaneous
- Brain Pickings: "Vintage Illustrations for Tolkien’s The Hobbit from Around the World" by Maria Popova
- New Republic: "Q&A: Ta-Nehisi Coates on Reparations, Ignorant Journalism, and Whether He Talks to President Obama" by Isaac Chotiner
- Andreessen Horowitz: "This is Probably a Good Time to Say That I Don’t Believe Robots Will Eat All the Jobs…" by Marc Andreessen
- The New York Times: "Free Music, at Least While It Lasts" by David Carr
Life
- LancasterOnline: "Alzheimer's at 46: Popular Warwick teacher faces unexpected diagnosis with family, faith and humor" by Mary Beth Schweigert
- The New York Times: "In Escape Rooms, Video Games Meet Real Life" by Chris Suellentrop
Education
- Kenosha News: "[Postcrossing] Postcard program expands world for Brass School students" by Jessie Hellmann
- The New York Times: "What’s Lost as Handwriting Fades" by Maria Konnikova
Environment
- GQ: "Who Wants to Shoot an Elephant?" by Wells Tower. ... (Quote from one of the hunters featured in this article: "[Elephants] have just destroyed the ecosystem. People who oppose hunting ought to see this.")
- The New York Times: "From Untended Farmland, Reserve Tries to Recreate Wilderness From Long Ago" by Suzanne Daley
- Smithsonian.com: "Robots That Can Sniff Out Crop Disease: Georgia Tech engineers have developed a sensor that could save billions in lost crops" by Corinne Iozzio
- io9: "Failed Nuclear Weapons Recycling Program Could Put Us All in Danger" by Mark Strauss
- Vox: "Are pesticides killing all the honeybees? Not so fast." by Brad Plumer
History
- Newsweek: "The Fight to Find John Wilkes Booth’s Diary in a Forgotten Subway Tunnel" by Joe Kloc
- Huffington Post: "HG Wells' 'Little Wars': How An Icon Of Sci-Fi Invented Modern War Games 100 Years Ago" by Michael Rundle
- Concord Monitor: "Gravestone Girls tell stories from Mass. graves" by Paula J. Owen
- Atlas Obscura: "Bring out your dead to these corpse roads" by Allison Meier
- Vox: "40 maps that explain food in America" by Ezra Klein and Susannah Locke
- The Washington Post: "Sending a Torah and other cultural artifacts from Earth to the moon, just in case" by Paul Marks
Pure silliness
- The 700 Level: "The Evster searches online for some dope retro Phillies stuff and finds a bonkers oil painting of Jim Eisenreich" (Only for die-hard Phillies fans with a sense of humor. But maybe you already knew that from the title?)
- Consumerist: "Here’s What Happens When A Dead Mall Has A Fake Facebook Account" by Laura Northrup
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