by Editor | Mar 15, 2023 | Weirdness
from New York Magazine Intelligencer Who Is Still Inside the Metaverse? Searching for friends in Mark Zuckerberg’s deserted fantasyland. By Paul Murray The church. Photo: Paul Murray In September, my family and I move from our home in Dublin to a fancy East Coast...
by Editor | Mar 13, 2023 | Literary News
from Observer Book Thief Says He Stole 1,000 Unpublished Manuscripts Out of a Love of Reading A manuscript thief who stole unpublished works from authors like Sally Rooney, Margaret Atwood and Ian McEwan claims he wanted to cherish the books before anyone else....
by Editor | Mar 10, 2023 | Culture Music Art
from The New York Times Composers Find Transcendence, and Inspiration, at the Club by Zachary Woolfe BERLIN — In 2018, after a visit to Berghain, the storied techno club here, the saxophonist and curator Ryan Muncy called the composer Ash Fure, a friend and...
by Editor | Mar 6, 2023 | Mirth
from The Daily Mail Abstaining from masturbating RAISES risk of anxiety, depression and erectile dysfunction, study warns By LUKE ANDREWS https://twitter.com/i/status/1306777183952736258 Participating in ‘NoFap’ techniques may lead to devastating...
by Editor | Mar 5, 2023 | Literary News
from The Free Press Things Worth Remembering: W. H. Auden’s Poignant Embrace One stanza of poetry captures the pleasure of holding another person. By Douglas Murray W. H. Auden at Oxford University in 1972. (Alamy) One of the odd things about poetry is that people...
