Reads tagged with “books”

This Is Water: David Foster Wallace on Life

Revisiting the tragic literary hero’s only public insights on life.

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A Breakup Letter from Simone de Beauvoir

“I can still feel warm and happy and harshly grateful when I look at you inside me.”

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Why We Cry: The Science of Sobbing and Emotional Tearing

Why it’s easier to prevent a crying spell than to stop one already underway.

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Christopher Hitchens on Mortality

“To the dumb question ‘Why me?’ the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: Why not?”

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The Science of “Chunking,” Working Memory, and How Pattern Recognition Fuels Creativity

“Generating interesting connections between disparate subjects is what makes art so fascinating to create and to view… We are forced to contemplate a new, higher pattern that binds lower ones together.”

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Kevin Stanton’s Cut-Paper Illustrations of Romeo and Juliet

A tactile take on literature’s most tragic love story.

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The First Ads for Famous Books

Because even genius needs share of voice to succeed.

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Elegantissima: The Design and Typography of Louise Fili

Three decades of typographic magic, graphic elegance, and combinatorial creativity.

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Words David Foster Wallace’s Mom Invented

Because language is a living organism and creativity the sum total of our life experience.

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Why Emotional Excess is Essential to Writing and Creativity

“Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terrors, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them.”

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Reads tagged with “books”

Revisiting the tragic literary hero’s only public insights on life.

“I can still feel warm and happy and harshly grateful when I look at you inside me.”

Why it’s easier to prevent a crying spell than to stop one already underway.

“To the dumb question ‘Why me?’ the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: Why not?”

“Generating interesting connections between disparate subjects is what makes art so fascinating to create and to view… We are forced to contemplate a new, higher pattern that binds lower ones together.”

A tactile take on literature’s most tragic love story.

Because even genius needs share of voice to succeed.

Three decades of typographic magic, graphic elegance, and combinatorial creativity.

Because language is a living organism and creativity the sum total of our life experience.

“Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terrors, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them.”

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