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Newsletters go back at least as far as the Middle Ages, but these days, with full-time jobs at stable media companies evaporating—between the 2008 recession and 2019, newsroom employment dropped by 23 percent—Substack offers an appealing alternative.

cjr.org • The Substackerati

no fallacist suggests that we need to reorder the months of the year because the names for a bunch of them—September through December—don’t match up etymologically with their placement in the calendar. September (seven) is the ninth month of the year; October (eight), the tenth; November (nine), the eleventh; and December (ten), the twelfth.

Kory Stamper • Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries

He was, in other words, the library’s memory and the soul of the scriptorium.

William Weaver • The Name of the Rose

“lofi hip hop radio—beats to relax/study to,”

Kyle Chayka • Filterworld

The more Springwater and Mackenzie thought about it, the more they thought they could build a better way. What they built became an app called Matter, a combination of a read-later app and a discovery engine for great content. Ultimately, Springwater said, it could be even more. "Reading right now is really simple," he said. "It's text on a page.... See more

David Pierce • Spotify for Readers: How Tech Is Inventing Better Ways to Read the Internet

I was backstage. Letterman staff was pissed that Tyler didn't clean his lyrics up.

Elliott Wilson x.com

everyone around the Saint Paul levees came to know “Jim” Hill, his name usually rendered as one word, “Jimhill,” a man who always seemed up on anything and everything that went on.

Michael P. Malone • James J. Hill: Empire Builder of the Northwest (The Oklahoma Western Biographies Book 12)

Mr Pest: How about Grate Expectations? Assistant: Ah yes, we have that . . . He goes to fetch it and returns to the counter. Mr Pest: . . . That’s G-r-a-t-e Expectations, also by Edmund Wells. Assistant: I see. In that case we don’t have it. We don’t have anything by Edmund Wells, actually – he’s not very popular. Mr Pest: Not Knickerless Nickleby?