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This April Max Rudin gave a nice history of Library of America at the 2026 Whiting Awards ceremony. LitHub brought us the speech. As Mr Rudin, President and Publisher of LoA, puts it “What we now think of as American literature was more or less discovered—invented might be a better word—in the 1920s, by modernist...
In their book Scarcity, Eldar Shafir and Sendhil Mullainathan suggest that scarcity often starts with abundance. Imagine you have a deadline next week. That’s plenty of time to do the task—abundance—so you figure you’ll do it later. Eventually, you forget about it, and you only remember the day of the deadline. Now...
Around two weeks ago, we went to a nearby Chinese buffet for my birthday lunch. The restaurant had just changed owners, and was still working out some scheduling kinks with a new supplier. After the host seated us, he said: "Unfortunately, we are out of kid cups. Instead, we have been punching straw holes into the...
It's time once again to revisit Larry Hama and company's original 1982-1994 Marvel Comics series, G.I. Joe, A Real American Hero (via Image Comics' 2024 G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Compendium Vol. 1). Today we we'll be looking at issues #28-30. (Only 20 more issues to go...! In this volume. And then 105 more...
I get flowers and I get poems written for me. I get showers of praises directed to me. All these compliments, even more promises, I get everything, every fucking thing to me. My beauty is a symbol of power through views. A power that I cannot control or use. With sweet little lies, and thousands of tries. They try...
Iron Arachne has been undergoing a lot of changes this year. It's the first year where I really started experimenting with using large language models for coding in general, and it was inevitable that I would try using them with Iron Arachne. The results have been mixed, as anything with AI is going to be. On the...
I used to think making friends was just something that happened to you, like weather. You went to school, and there they were. You got a job, and there they were again, standing next to you at the copier or on the loading dock, and eventually you were getting a beer with them on a Friday without ever really deciding...
Sony Pictures Entertainment / YouTube: From the mind of visionary filmmaker Zach Cregger (Weapons, Barbarian) comes a thrilling — and terrifying — reinvention of the Resident Evil franchise. In an all-new story, Resident Evil follows Bryan (Austin Abrams), a medical courier who unwittingly finds himself in an...
Coyote vs. Acme / YouTube: Not all underdogs are dogs. Coyote vs. ACME only in theaters August 28. With every new piece of footage, I remain baffled that this movie was supposed to be tossed away and lost for the purposes of a tax rebate. David Zaslav is a moron. I will be there, day one, when… Coyote vs. ACME hits...
In 1906 an English mathematician named Charles Howard Hinton published a book arguing that the fourth dimension was not merely something to be calculated but something a person could learn to see, given enough practice. His method was a set of small painted wooden cubes, each with its own colour and name, to be...
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