Beth

I still can’t wait to see Cuckoo, Blink Twice, Didi and the new Beetlejuice remake. However, the best movie of the summer *might* be Guillermo del Toro live-tweeting about paranormal activity at his hotel in Scotland, where he’s shooting a new Frankestein adaptation.

As soon as he arrived, GDT camped out in a room that someone else had already been ... See more

From the ribs up, there’s no xylitol pain, and ribs-up is where the tender will most be enjoyed, mouth and the top of the stomach. Might as well have some pleasure in the mouth. I am not someone who finds stomach pain to be an appetite suppressant. Physical pain and food pleasure are two radio channels I can listen to simultaneously. The food might... See more

Thanks for being here and for being nervous with me. I hope this week you see a bird you’ve been looking for, that you get to do a few of the things you love, and that if you love bran muffins you don’t feel shy about it.

I was listening to Paramore’s “Misery Business,” a song about delighting in the misery of your boyfriend’s inferior ex and enjoying the thought of them seeing you two together. I really love that song—it’s kind of slut shamey, but honestly, like, I don’t know man, a bop is a bop—and I listen to it before I play tennis to get in a cruel and competit... See more

The recurring hypocrisy makes me wonder: Do we *actually* not want people to go through what we went through....or do we secretly think what we went through is foundational to good work?

Miller ended up writing thousands and thousands of words all centered around a puzzle she wanted to solve: what caused the majority of Germans to comply with horrific authority, and what caused a minority to resist?

According to Miller, it is an issue of embodied humanity. She wrote: “Our capacity to resist has nothing to do with our intelligence bu... See more

Thinking through —rather than just thinking—is important. A thought or an idea is never that precious. People have thoughts and ideas all the time, many of them preliminary. Sometimes people mistake their feelings for thoughts and ideas, which are in turn mistaken for absolute truths. The point of writing and reading fiction is not to stay with the... See more