A weekly series that explores a featured theme — this month, it's "tongues" — by pairing classic quotations with urgent images. What recent news items inspired these textual/visual sets? Leave your guesses in the comments, and check back next Wednesday afternoon for the answers.
Read MoreYou’ve probably read the same Times article, the one decrying the death of a small business, a dozen times or more. Instead of focusing on a beloved shop's dying days, why not celebrate its heyday? I stumbled upon a book that does just that — and used it to find five stores still thriving after all these years.
Read MoreSights, sounds, and scenes from the Mission District of San Francisco. This week, two gentlemen debate the proper amount of time a suitor must allow before he initiates correspondence with the lady he wishes to woo.
A weekly series that celebrates everyone’s favorite part of the author reading: the Q&A. This week, Joyce Carol Oates, whose book The Rescuers comes out this month, explains where she finds her characters.
Read MoreIn Brooklyn, where there are classes in artisan pencil-sharpening, it’s not surprising that you can take a bitters tasting class. Inspired by a recent afternoon at Brooklyn Brainery and my own heady research, I offer this bitters primer. Because the wise drinker shares.
Read MoreEveryone from Galileo to Jim Morrison to countless Scrabble wordsmiths have played around with letters to form their perfect anagrams. We take literary-minded words and anagram them to find ... well, that's up to you. A deeper meaning? A hidden truth? Or just a happy coincidence?
Read MoreHeadline v. Headline pits the idiosyncratic slants of different global news sources against each other. In Syria, the violence grinds on as rebel groups attempt to topple Bashar al-Assad’s presidency.
Read MoreLast Thursday, a group of writers, publishers, developers, and journalists rallied to the first ever Twitter Fiction Festival. BB intern Rebecca Hoffman was there, smartphone and complimentary cocktail in hand.
Read MoreThe Silent History is a cool experiment in fiction: a novel in the form of an app that releases installments, including geo-specific "Field Reports," every day. So two months in to its six-month launch, how does the book read? Where does it read best? And is it, you know, good? Here are a few of the places and times I've been in the company of The Silent History.
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