Weekend Reading

A few of the following are hard to read, please note there may be triggering content.

  • The Secret History of One Hundred Years of Solitude
    The house, in a quiet part of Mexico City, had a study within, and in the study he found a solitude he had never known before and would never know again. Cigarettes (he smoked 60 a day) were on the worktable. LPs were on the record player: Debussy, Bartók, A Hard Day’s Night.
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  • There Once Was a Girl
    My parents have a small framed photograph of E and me in their upstairs hall. We must be 6 or 7. We are smiling in someone’s backyard, our heads damp from running through a sprinkler, and we wear matching checkered bathing suits—mine pink, hers blue. My sister is lissome.
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  • The Scandalous Legacy of Isabella Stewart Gardner, Collector of Art and Men
    The first time I encountered Isabella Stewart Gardner was the way most people do: through her museum. The Isabella Stewart Gardner museum is located near Fenway Park in Boston, just a short walk from the Museum of Fine Arts.
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  • Encounter with the Infinite
    How Did the Minimally Trained, Isolated Srinivasa Ramanujan, with Little More than an Out-of-Date Elementary Textbook, Anticipate Some of the Deepest Theoretical Problems of Mathematics—Including Concepts Discovered Only after His Death?
    Read: http://ift.tt/1ATcsom
  • Get rich or die vlogging: The sad economics of internet fame
    It was all so painfully awkward. That night, Brittany Ashley, a lesbian stoner in red lipstick, was at Eveleigh, a popular farm-to-table spot in West Hollywood. The restaurant was hosting Buzzfeed’s Golden Globes party.
    Read: http://ift.tt/1RNk5VN
  • The 5 Habits That Will Make You Happy, According to Science
    Eric Barker writes Barking Up the Wrong Tree.
    Read: http://ift.tt/1QrzTOr
  • Did anyone end up touching Shia LaBeouf’s soul?
    I’ve been thinking about Shia LaBeouf a lot this past weekend. Probably because while many were frantically redialling his hotline to touch his soul, I was stood right beside him.
    Read: http://ift.tt/1NxnZwI
  • Streaming TV Isn’t Just a New Way to Watch. It’s a New Genre.
    At some point during Netflix’s “Sense8” — a gorgeous, ridiculous series about eight strangers scattered across the world who use a psychic connection to aid one another in fights and at one point have a virtual orgy — I had to ask myself: What am I watching?
    Read: http://ift.tt/1JcXPh0
  • Unpregnant: The silent, secret grief of miscarriage
    When she miscarried in her mid-30s, Alexandra Kimball felt profoundly alone: abandoned by a feminist movement that didn’t recognize her loss, accused by conventional wisdom of waiting too long to conceive, and deprived by society of the rituals that mark other forms of grief.
    Read: http://ift.tt/1N0CBXw