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4 Key Responsibilities of Writers According to Philip Pullman
Illustrations by Nathan Gelgud Attention authors: Philip Pullman has some advice for you. He wants you to make money from your writing. He wants you to make as much as you can. The vast majority of...
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A Quick Illustrated History of the Origins of Myers-Briggs
Illustrations by Nathan Gelgud This is not a test! At least that’s what the administrators of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator will tell you. Often described as a personality test, to the chagrin of...
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Notes from the Fog: An Illustrated Dip Into Ben Marcus’s Latest Book
Illustrations © Nathan Gelgud The following is excerpted from Ben Marcus’s story collection, Notes from the Fog, which offers readers timely dystopian visions of alienation in a modern world. The...
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David Lynch on the Hidden Spirituality of “Eraserhead,” Illustrated
Illustrations © Nathan Gelgud In 1999, I drove across the country, from Raleigh, North Carolina to Telluride, Colorado, to attend the Telluride Film Festival. Every year, the festival hosted a few...
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Notes from the Fog: An Illustrated Dip Into Ben Marcus’s Latest Book
Illustrations © Nathan Gelgud The following is excerpted from Ben Marcus’s story collection, Notes from the Fog, which offers readers timely dystopian visions of alienation in a modern world. The...
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Karl Ove Knausgaard Concludes His Quartet by Contemplating Intelligence
Illustrations inspired by Summer by Karl Ove Knausgaard © Nathan Gelgud With Summer, Karl Ove Knausgaard wraps up his series of season books, loosely structured as thoughts addressed to his baby...
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The Double-Slit Experiment and the Scientists Who Argued About It
Illustrations by Nathan Gelgud, inspired by Through Two Doors at Once by Anil Ananthaswamy Anil Ananthaswamy has written a book about a single experiment. Take a sheet of paper and cut two slits in...
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The History of Sand: Sand is Everywhere (Not Just at the Beach)
Inspired by The World in a Grain by Vince Beiser/Illustrations © Nathan Gelgud When I did the backpacking thing one summer in college, using my Eurail pass to go from Budapest to Florence to Prague,...
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Herman Melville, From Novella to Opus: What to Read and Where to Start
Illustrations © Nathan Gelgud The problem with a book like Moby-Dick, or a writer like Herman Melville, is that the best thing you can say about them is that they’re not overrated. Like Rules of the...
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What if You Were on an Airplane with Parker Posey?
Illustrations © Nathan Gelgud You’re sitting on a plane in the aisle seat, and the woman who has the window seat needs to squeeze by you. She’s got a little white dog, she doesn’t need help with her...
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Hunter S. Thompson and the Sanity of Writers
Illustrations © Nathan Gelgud I don’t know if it still behooves aspiring writers to enter short story contests, or if it ever did, but if you’re sending off a cover letter with a submission, take a...
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Keith Gessen’s A Terrible Country: Finding Yourself in 2008 Russia
Illustrations © Nathan Gelgud In Keith Gessen’s A Terrible Country, Andrei Kaplan returns to Moscow in 2008 after many years, and goes looking for free WiFi. Of course, nothing’s free; he’ll have to...
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3 Books to Read on Independence Day if You’re Politically-Minded
Illustrations © Nathan Gelgud Every Fourth of July, I’m reminded of Flavor Flav’s introduction to the Public Enemy track “Louder than a Bomb” from their 1988 masterpiece album “It Takes a Nation of...
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Remembering Stonewall via the Original New York Times Reporting
Illustrations © Nathan Gelgud In the 1974 Los Angeles cop buddy movie “Busting,” Elliott Gould and Robert Blake play vice cops who raid a gay bar, and get roughed up by the patrons who they’re...
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David Lynch on the Hidden Spirituality of “Eraserhead,” Illustrated
Illustrations © Nathan Gelgud In 1999, I drove across the country, from Raleigh, North Carolina to Telluride, Colorado, to attend the Telluride Film Festival. Every year, the festival hosted a few...
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Richard Russo’s Advice on Writing Through Self-Doubt
Illustrations © Nathan Gelgud How does a writer make things funny? To hear Richard Russo tell it, he doesn’t. There’s no way to make something funny, and there’s no real way to teach humor. Writing...
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The History Behind America’s Sneaker Obsession, Illustrated
Illustrations © Nathan Gelgud A confession: a few years ago I dabbled in sneaker obsession. How can one simply dabble in an obsession? Well, I never paid more than $120 for a pair, and I never waited...
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Herman Melville, From Novella to Opus: What to Read and Where to Start
Illustrations © Nathan Gelgud The problem with a book like Moby-Dick, or a writer like Herman Melville, is that the best thing you can say about them is that they’re not overrated. Like Rules of the...
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What if You Were on an Airplane with Parker Posey?
Illustrations © Nathan Gelgud You’re sitting on a plane in the aisle seat, and the woman who has the window seat needs to squeeze by you. She’s got a little white dog, she doesn’t need help with her...
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Hunter S. Thompson and the Sanity of Writers
Illustrations © Nathan Gelgud I don’t know if it still behooves aspiring writers to enter short story contests, or if it ever did, but if you’re sending off a cover letter with a submission, take a...
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