OK folks, here's the latest collection of Great Things To Read On the Internet, as curated by me over the past five weeks or so. Now, you cannot possibly say that you have nothing to read this weekend. (Or maybe you can bookmark these for when you get snowed in some day this upcoming winter.) Also, enjoy these two pieces of utterly random vintage ephemera.
Books and reading
- Aeon: "Future Reading: Digital books stagnate in closed, dull systems, while printed books are shareable, lovely and enduring. What comes next?" by Craig Mod
- National Post: "Iceland Reads: The country of 320,000 punches well above its literary weight class" by Mark Medley1
- HuffPost Books: "A Chat With Beth Vrabel About Her Middle Grade Novel 'A Blind Guide to Stinkville'" by Mary Pauline Lowry
- The New York Times Magazine: "A Penny for Your Books" by Dan Nosowitz
- The Guardian: "Tolkien's annotated map of Middle-earth discovered inside copy of Lord of the Rings" by Alison Flood
- The New York Times: "Stacy Schiff’s ‘The Witches’ Shines a Torch on Salem Trials" by Alexandra Alter
- The Point: "The Magic of Untidiness" by Laurel Berger
- The New Yorker: "The Hidden Depths of Sandra Boynton’s Board Books" by Ian Bogost
History
- CityLab: "The Visionary Mega-Tower That San Francisco Never Built" by Aria Bendix
- Keystone Crossroads: "Highway history: How the Pennsylvania Turnpike created and destroyed towns" by Eleanor Klibanoff
- Country Living: "400-Year-Old Church Mystically Emerges From Reservoir During Drought" by Diana Bruk
Halloween themes
- Longreads: "The Most Haunted Road in America — Ghost boy, cannibals, disappearing trucks: A journey into the darkness of New Jersey to uncover the mysteries of Clinton Road" by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
- Electric Lit: "Searching for the headless horseman" by Jason Diamond
- Odd Things I've Seen: "Plots Among the Plots: Horror Movie Graveyards I Have Known" by J.W. Ocker
- The Atlantic: "Japan’s Enduring Spookiness: America has Japan beat on Halloween. But Japan has the world beat on monsters." by Jillian Kumagai
Pop culture
- Variety: "Why We Never Saw Alfred Hitchcock’s Bond, and Three More Lost 007 Movies" by Matthew Chernov
- The New York Times Magazine: "Ellen Page Goes Off-Script" by Sam Anderson
- A.V. Club: "'Video Killed The Radio Star' killed the radio star" by Gwen Ihnat
- A.V. Club: "The battle over the infamous cult classic Manos: The Hands of Fate" by Joe Blevins
- Smithsonian.com: "If You Die in This Video Game, You Can Never Play Again" by Danny Lewis
Miscellaneous Cornucopia of Greatness (MCoG)
- My Inside Voices: "On being small and temporary" by Susan Jennings
- The Atlantic: "Daylight Saving Time Is Terrible: Here's a Simple Plan to Fix It" by Allison Schrager
- Gizmodo: "The Internet Really Isn't A Permanent Archive" by Kiona Smith-Strickland
- The New York Times: "The Lonely Death of George Bell" by N.R. Kleinfield
- Medium: "The art and business of storytelling" by Noah Rosenberg
- The Washington Post: "Local persimmons, acorns and hickory nuts are forecasting a harsh winter in D.C." by Kevin Ambrose
Great links with lots of pictures
- Hyperallergic: "Library of Congress Acquires Portfolio of 681 Photos of US Public Libraries" by Allison Meier
- Flickering Lamps: "The mysterious and majestic stone circle at Lochbuie"
- BBC News: "The lost rivers that lie beneath London" by Andy Dangerfield
Footnote
1. This excerpt from that article is so great I want to share it here. I also wouldn't mind moving to Iceland.
"A copy of the bókatíðindi, which lists approximately 90% of the books published in Iceland each year, is mailed to every household in the country, free of charge. While in most countries the presents under the Christmas tree come in all shapes and sizes, Loftsdóttir jokes that in Iceland one finds a row of neatly wrapped books. “The book is still the most popular Christmas present in Iceland,” she says. There’s even a name for the phenomenon: the “jólabókaflóð,” which means Christmas book flood."
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