John Gardner on the Key to Self-Renewal Across Life and the Art of Making Rather Than Finding Meaning
"The potentialities you develop to the full come as the result of an interplay between you and life's challenges."
"The potentialities you develop to the full come as the result of an interplay between you and life's challenges."
Pulitzer Prize in Fiction juror Michael Chabon recommended three non-winning books that he “deeply dug” : The Ice Harp (Norman Lock), After World (Debbie Urbanski), and Dearborn (Ghassan Zeinnedine). 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
I am a sports parent but have never been the type that lived through the achievements of their kids, but even so, there are parts of Rich Cohen’s The Sad Fate of the Sports Parent I identified with. The end began like this: One evening, after the last game of the high-school
The six artists, musicians, and advocates will each receive a $25,000 grant and a three-week residency this summer in the Mahicannituck (Hudson River) Valley.
Legacy Russell’s Black Meme argues that owning, replicating, and remediating Black material is a theft rooted in historical frameworks of subordination.
The beautiful and the bad — paintings and otherwise — make an impression in galleries this month.
Tracing the history of emoji, surprisingly, back to the 80s . “Once you accept that emoji existed in the 1980s, more things come to light.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
The Met show pays tribute to the designs and technical innovations of long-ago weavers and the 20th-century artists who took inspiration from them.
Despite its legacy as a hub of Latinx art, the institution has been housed in a dilapidated building for decades and, more recently, faced allegations of discrimination.
Thanks to the Instagram account New American Paintings , I recently came across the work of Los Angeles-based artist Delia Brown, including the above portrait, “Jai Maa! (Justine II),” which I love. A feature on Brown in Independent Art Fair magazine also includes an awesome
Paul Ford writing about AI is a treat. “AI is, very simply, a totally shameless technology. It does everything badly and confidently. And I want to be it.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
The painting by British artist Jonathan Yeo was met with a torrent of memes, online reactions, and expressions of puzzlement.
“My love of farm-fresh frozen confections does not outweigh my distaste for food poisoning — or bird flu.” Interesting look at the interstate raw milk trade . 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
"Her search for answers would plunge her into 1920s Baltimore society: a celebrated Johns Hopkins scientist, a famous mountaineer and a trailblazing female journalist."
Francis Ford Coppola has been making Megalopolis since 1983 and has self funded it “in part by the sale of a significant portion of the director’s wine empire”. But the trailer is finally here and it premieres at Cannes in two days’ time. Here’s a synopsis shared by Coppola
"How a range of new retirees marked the end of their working days."
“Flowers are connecting, grounding, uplifting, healing, and worth treasuring,” says Essex-based artist Jessica Saunders , whose delicate stained glass sculptures highlight an array of familiar and beloved blooms. From daffodils and poppies to cornflowers and hydrangeas, her
TIL that some tiny bits of bitcoins are more valuable than others . “Those produced in the year bitcoin was created are considered vintage, like a fine wine. Other coveted sats were part of transactions made by bitcoin’s inventor.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
Whoa, a 5500-piece Lego set of the tower of Barad-dûr from LoTR . According to The Verge , the eye lights up, there’s a Shelob inside, and you can stack multiple sets to make your tower taller. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
Google is replacing their search results with AI answers . There’s a very simple explanation for this: it’s better/cheaper to provide potentially wrong answers to keep you clicking within Google than it is to send you away for the right answers. 💬 Join the discussion on
Hey folks. I’ve posted a couple of times about Hot Frank Summer, the group read of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1831 edition) that some folks are doing on Bluesky . Well, it kicks off today. To participate, all you need to do is follow the reading schedule . If you don’t have a
In vivid pinks, blues, and greens, radiant landscapes emerge in Erin Hanson ’s impressionistic oil paintings. The artist is based in Oregon’s Willamette Valley, where the rolling hills and surrounding mountain ranges cradle miles of vineyards. She draws on the textures and
Love this phrase: decanting groceries . “Do you really want to spend your one wild and precious life putting marshmallows in jars?” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
The target of a sextortion scam upends the experience by soliciting his friends’ views on masturbation and shame - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
Note: Back in 2013, when Alice Munro won the Nobel Prize in Literature, we published a post featuring 20 short stories written by Munro. Today, with the sad news that Alice Munro has passed away, at the age of 92, we’re bringing the original post (from October 10, 2013) back to
When we do something nice for someone, a ‘thank you’ and a smile is nice to receive. And, in many parts of human culture, it’s a bit expected. But when something goes wrong, if we drop a plate or miss a turn or make someone late, it’s particularly delightful and memorable if we
One hardly has to be an expert on the films of Wes Anderson to imagine that the man writes with a fountain pen. Maybe back in the early nineteen-nineties, when he was shooting the black-and-white short that would become Bottle Rocket on the streets of Austin, he had to settle