Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
If anything, mass culture lately appears more aesthetically homogenous than ever.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
I find it harder and harder to read an entire book—dealing with a kid, The Bachelor, so very busy—but I can peruse the shit out of a long Wikipedia entry.
Jessi Klein • I'll Show Myself Out
Yancey Strickler • Small is more meaningful than big
In 2019 the Emilia Report (named after England’s first published female poet, Emilia Bassano) analysed coverage of male and female writers and found that women were twice as likely to have their ages referenced – or, in the case of Sally Rooney, her appearance, ‘like a startled deer with sensuous lips’, according to one Swiss critic.
Louise Willder • Blurb Your Enthusiasm: A Cracking Compendium of Book Blurbs, Writing Tips, Literary Folklore and Publishing Secrets
It was as if you could buy only the books that appeared on the New York Times bestseller list, but the list was operated by an untrustworthy company, one solely devoted to treating books as fungible objects to be offloaded as quickly as possible.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
Charlie Brooker: It’s hard to conceive that all this stuff wasn’t there to start with! The same goes for [Belinda Carlisle’s 1987 hit] Heaven Is a Place On Earth, which randomly popped up on a 1987 Spotify playlist I put together while I wrote. Listening to the lyrics, I thought, “This is perfect. Oh my god, we’ve got to license the song!”