What Do We Do With Feelings Now That They Don’t Matter Anymore?

Sarah Miller thinks about climate change and other current horrors, and what it’s like just being sad forever.

Source: Longreads
Published: Mar 11, 2020
Length: 7 minutes (1,800 words)

The Jazz Icon Sonny Rollins Knows Life Is A Solo Trip.

David Marchese talks to jazz genius Sonny Rollins about why he decided not to publish his ideas on saxophone technique and harmony and his distinct lack of nostalgia for jazz days gone by.

Published: Feb 24, 2020
Length: 14 minutes (3,531 words)

Karen Russell: A Brutally Honest Accounting of Writing, Money, and Motherhood

“Every minute with her kids is work lost, and each minute writing subtracts from precious, un-price-able joy.”

Source: Wealthsimple
Published: Mar 9, 2020
Length: 17 minutes (4,445 words)

How Judith Jones Radically Transformed American Food Writing

Julia Child, MFK Fisher, Edna Lewis — behind the most influential food writers was one innovative, exacting editor.

Source: LitHub
Published: Mar 10, 2020
Length: 8 minutes (2,245 words)

Mother Land

When a native of North Korea returns to the country with her daughter, it is not a homecoming. It is also proof that narrative is a human construct we impose on a disorderly reality.

Source: Gay Magazine
Published: Mar 6, 2020
Length: 6 minutes (1,719 words)

Five Quarters of the Orange: A Sense of Place in the Inland Empire

Author Susan Straight was born in Riverside, California and still lives in Riverside. For her, residents’ citrus trees and commeraderie are the ties that bound people in Los Angeles Metropolitan Area’s massive interior, and they’re what can sustain them through future hard times.

Source: KCET
Published: Sep 7, 2011
Length: 5 minutes (1,491 words)

The Tyranny of Terrazzo: Will the Millennial Aesthetic Ever End?

Clean, soothing, predicatable, controlled, and ready for Instagram.

Source: The Cut
Published: Mar 3, 2020
Length: 15 minutes (3,920 words)

The Pioneer of Online Gambling

Another fantastic installment of Michael LaPointe’s monthly gambling column Dice Roll. This one is about Steve Schillinger, who sold futures for things you would never find on the Pacific Stock Exchange, including whether O. J. would go to prison.

Published: Mar 3, 2020
Length: 9 minutes (2,478 words)

Habitat Loss

The Roaring Cat Retreat was more than one couple’s personal zoo. It was a symbol of the divisions between a small Canadian town’s rich and poor, its past and present, and the park’s closure threatened to take some of Grand Bend, Ontario’s unusual character with it.

Source: Maisonneuve
Published: Feb 18, 2020
Length: 22 minutes (5,717 words)

The Drone Boat Of ‘Shipwreck Alley’

“Meet BEN, the self-driving boat that’s been tasked with helping lay bare the long-lost secrets of the lakebed.”

Source: The Verge
Published: Mar 5, 2020
Length: 13 minutes (3,446 words)