the habit of wonder

When people fall in love, they should tell the world.

When two cartoonists fall in love, they should tell the world in their own way.

(Via waxy.org)

Ira Glass of public radio’s This American Life hangs up on reporters. But only, in this Columbia Journalism Review interview, to parody Robert Novak—and it’s all in fun, fun of the sincere kind that we’ve come to expect of Glass.

Glass fascinates at least three separate times in this piece. First, as he reflects on […]

Bathtub reading, favored affectation of Zooey Glass, finally gets recognition as a for-profit venture. A small New York publisher has patented the waterproof book.

If you’re a tub reader, or if Alice Munro makes you cry, perhaps DuraBook is for you.

If you want thousands to show up for the opening of your new big-box retail emporium, here’s what your ads should say: DON’T shop. DON’T spend.

It worked in Prague.

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Have you had it with hipsters? Well, good, because hipsters have had it—or so they say.

“I think people are exhausted by trends that have the half-life of a millisecond,” says John Leland, author of “Hip: The History.” “You live in a state of perpetual whiplash, in which the minute you’re up on one trend […]

In a play that offers a fresh take on impossible relationships, a young man falls for a shark. It’s Jaws meets Trick in Rhode Island:

Is it love at first bite? Swimming in the Shallows treats its unusual infatuation as your everyday teen crush, all giddy apprehension and nervous fumbling. Clearly, a little man-shark love is […]

This is what it sounds like when people are excited by new poetry—by Alli Warren’s Hounds, a chapbook released this spring without a publisher’s imprint:

Contact Alli Warren immediately and force her to sell you a copy. It is worth a thousand dollars. [K. Silem Mohammad]

UPDATE July 6, 2005—Make that more than $1000, as a copy […]