Kanye West plans to write a philosophy book
The moment w’ve all been waiting for has arrived. According to David Turner at Jezebel, Kanye West is writing a book. The news was revealed rather nonchalantly by West himself, in… Read more »
Oliver Sacks wrote to understand, describe, explain, share, recollect, relate, narrate, define, categorize, generalize, seduce, evoke, and “fix” his thoughts in words, his extensive notes reveal
They called me Inky as a boy, and I still seem to get as ink stained as I did seventy years ago. I started keeping journals when I was fourteen… Read more »
Books that give new meaning to the word “paperback”
For a new display installed at the New York Public Library, artist and designer Kelli Anderson has teamed up with Maria Popova of Brain Pickings to create a diorama of… Read more »
In defense of Maria Popova
If your website is part of an affiliate program and you potentially earn money by linking to books — either on Amazon or Indiebound or others — are you ethically… Read more »
They may take our lives, but they’ll never take our slightly larger jpgs!
Maria Popova, whose blog Brain Pickings is a popular aggregator of internet curiosities, spent some time on a horse of Dali-esque height and absurdity yesterday after her request to use… 2 / Read more »