Sublime

An inspiration engine for ideas

AllPeopleCollectionsArticlesAudioBooksFilesHighlightsImagesLinksNotesTextTweetsVideosSocial

He wasn’t around the Current TV office too often, but he was around when it mattered, and he was always curious and kind. Graceful. He told a story about the kernel of the network’s concept, which was a story about human evolution, the way visual media hacks our brains, and the urgent need, therefore, to make visual media that is actually good. He ... See more

Robin Sloan • The Golden Door

One of the agencies the package went to was Frederick Hill Associates in San Francisco, where Bonnie Nadell, a new associate who had worked in the subsidiary rights department at Simon & Schuster when Less Than Zero was published,

D. T. Max • Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace

The writer was fearless. The writer was such a lover of truth that he would expose himself to any amount of pain in order to add to his store of truth. He was superior to Unk and Stony. He watched and recorded their subversive activities with love, amusement, and detachment.

Kurt Vonnegut • The Sirens of Titan

Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49.

D. T. Max • Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace

Andrew Millner

@millneros

‘Children used to be our legacy, right? They were our chance to cheat death, to pass these little bits of ourselves along. But now we hope it can simply be us.’

Hugh Howey • Shift: Book 2 of Silo, the New York Times bestselling dystopian series, now an Apple TV drama (Wool Trilogy Series)

Some highlights have been hidden or truncated due to export limits.

Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

Christopher Hitchens on the cultural fatwa

vanityfair.com

Andrew

@slowlight