If brevity is truly the soul of wit, then your Twitter feed is the Algonquin round table of today's digital Dorothy Parkers and Ogden Nashes. Here's a selection of our favorite tweets from the week; nominate yours by submitting to @blackballoonpub with #twitwit.
Read MoreIt's Day 1 of the AWP Conference in Boston, and the same question burns in everyone's mind: Free swag? Free swag!
Read MoreMeredith Ries, a set designer in her final year at the Yale School of Drama, is writing about her design process for Hamlet at the Yale Repertory Theater, opening March 21. This week, the crews are loading in: watch as they begin to transform an empty stage into Elsinore.
Read MoreSurely the finest German documentary about a calendar of nude "Thalidomiders" that Netflix has to offer.
Read MoreUpon trawling through the incredible Vogue online archive, we made a startling discovery:
writers have been copping their author photo poses from the magazine's
covers for decades. Don't believe us? We have proof.
They are an ubiquitous part of NYC culture, plowing through the streets with abandon alongside mommies, nannies, and strollers, and the impossibly cool NYC native teenagers who are dressed better than you will ever be. They walk among us, often with two, three, or seven canine companions. They are the walkers of dogs.
Read MoreSwimsuit season beckons; instead of doing an uninspired juice cleanse, why not take a more literary approach? We’ve combed through an array of books to find diets that will work for all body types, goals, and temperaments.
Read MoreOut in paperback this week, The Guardians is Sarah Manguso’s elegy for a friend who eloped from a psychiatric ward and jumped in front of a Metro-North train. As her book joins the slim ranks of literature mourning the loss of a platonic friend, we follow the cadences of her grief with four stanzas from Tennyson’s masterwork of that genre, “In Memoriam A.H.H.”
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