Roger Angell laments the loss of letter-writing in The New Yorker:
We’ve done this to ourselves, of course, and done it eagerly, with our tweets and texts, our Facebook chat, our flooding e-mails, and our pleasure in the pejorative “snail mail.”
The same story told in images: here’s a wonderful collection of Time Magazine photographs of famous authors, poets, performers (including Ernest Hemingway, Agatha Christie, Bob Dylan…) and their typewriters.
From today’s New York Times:
Real leaders, wrote the novist David Foster Wallace, are people who “help us overcome the limitations of our own individual laziness and selfishness and weakness and fear and get us to do better, harder, things things than we can get ourselves to do on our own.”
The article is about a failed expedition to the South Pole.
10 of my favorites from Street Art Utopia’s most loved street art photos of 2011:
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