[theparisreview]

Listen to archival tape of Maya Angelou interviewed by George Plimpton, the founding editor of the Review in our new podcast!

[theparisreview]

Dakota Johnson reads Dorothea Lasky’s poem “I Had a Man” in episode 3 of ‘The Paris Review Podcast.’

[oldfarmhousefallfeatures]

harvest🌿

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[inkskinned]

the days feel unripened. the winter does this to me. i stand in and out of my own body. i feel scripted rather than graceful - clanking my way through habits and basic requirements as if each bone was concrete. i make to-do lists. i chew candy. i do all my self-care techniques.

the day is long. it is okay if i spend it curling around a cup of tea. the birds will come back. the world will be warm. in the meantime, carve me a small slice of sunbeam. i will find a treasure in tiny pleasures. i will horde laughter in jars. i will find a book and eat each word like ice cream.

[neil-gaiman]

Hi Mr. Gaiman. I have a confession I’ve been wanting to get off my chest for about 12 years. When I was in high school I stole most of the Sandman series. It was from a teacher at our school who was fired for sexual harassment of students, and I was one of the students, but I wasn’t the one who had actually come forward, for a bunch of reasons (including being a confused uncomfortable 15 year old girl). He had your books in his classroom and I decided he didn’t deserve them any more, so I took them home before he was allowed to come back for his stuff (after the school year ended when the students were gone). I don’t think anyone ever knew. I am sorry for committing a (minor) crime, but I still have them, and he is still a creep who didn’t deserve them, so. I hope you can forgive me.

You definitely shouldn't steal. (But I'm proud of you. Or at least, whatever power of forgiveness I have, consider it extended to you. I agree, he didn't deserve them.)

[delta-breezes]

@alixelay

[tumbleringaroundtheworld]

Palácio Foz, Lisbon - Portugal

[anxietyproblem]

[liberal-memes]

Liberal Memes

[liberal-memes]

Liberal Memes

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

[joeinct]

Peace Meals, Photo by Aaron Siskind, c. 1937

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

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“Soon I will be done” by Kevin Simmonds: Negro Spiritual I go down where it’s still sung by the mother of the block lifting her tremulous contralto from the screened porch that leans such that the latch won’t lock I’ve grown mean without its milk that saved masters from their slaves salve rubbed into the pink tears where rot should’ve set in the revolt Ask some black kid if they know it & they might say the title rings a bell but that doesn’t matter it runs mad in the ruby fractals of their capillaries & in their spit Never mind the tempo, child the stride began with Soon from your upbeat of breath & the ancestors already galloping (From Bend to It © Kevin Simmonds, 2014.)

[Alive On All Channels]

[russell-tomlin]

Trees at Cape Perpetua

An ordinary morning walk among the majestics at the top of Cape Perpetua on  the central Oregon coast.

[moradadabeleza]

Jennifer Schlesinger

Utopia 8, 2014

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

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“Let the body think of the spirit as streaming, pouring, rushing and shining into it from all sides.” -Plotinus

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[grace--upon--grace]

Victoria @vi_delight

[gernot-schwarz]

Architecture

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