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Boy Meets Nostalgia
The “Boy Meets World” actor Rider Strong discusses child stardom, being “the cross of other people’s nostalgia,” and his involvement in the forthcoming sequel, “Girl Meets World”: http://nyr.kr/PY4iY7
Photograph of Danielle Fishel, Rider Strong (top), and Ben Savage by Craig Sjodin/ABC/Getty.
What does it mean to be cool? According to scholar Joel Dinerstein, it means a person who conveys “relaxed intensity.” Using this definition, Dinerstein and Frank Goodyear III curated a photography exhibition of “American Cool” at National Portrait Gallery. The portraits feature everyone from Joan Didion to David Byrne.
Storytelling Spotlight: Story Club
Take the stage! No judges. No scores. After exploding on Chicago’s live lit scene, Story Club has expanded to Minneapolis. The perfect mix of open mic spontaneity with live theater thrills. Featured performers and volunteers get eight minutes to tell a first person narrative. Check it out at StoryFest this Saturday. Full schedule here.
Storytelling Spotlight: Amy Salloway
Amy Salloway has been described as "gifted at creating comedy from pain and embarrassment." An actor, writer and teacher, Amy's three autobiographical one-woman shows premiered at the Minnesota Fringe and continue to tour across the US and Canada. Check her out at StoryFest this Saturday, April 12th. Full schedule here .
Art is not difficult because it wishes to be difficult, but because it wishes to be art.
Seeing as yesterday was Donald Barthelme’s birthday, it’s as good a time as any to remember the short fiction icon. At Brain Pickings, Maria Popova reads Barthelme’s essay “Not-Knowing,” which you can find in the author’s collection of essays and interviews. (via millionsmillions)
Recommended Reading: this new anthology of art created with a typewriter.
Breaking news! We are so excited to share that the Academy of American Poets has signed a deal with King Features to bring daily poems back to newspapers and magazines. Poem-a-Day is being syndicated!
Find a rhythm in your breath, in and out, that will fuel the extreme vacillations in your mood during your practice. On the inhale, fill yourself with hope and possibility: You can hook up with literally anyone you want now. You can stop wearing eyeliner to bed. You don’t have to clean up that loser’s gross beard shavings from the sink ever again.
Hallie Cantor imagines a yoga class for the recently brokenhearted (subscription required): http://nyr.kr/1ippD4L (via newyorker)
Feedback is great for telling you what you did wrong. It’s terrible at telling you what you should do next.
Phil Libin (via austinkleon)
As the magazine buyer, I’m all sorts of pumped about the lovely media that is floating around in our magazine section. Magazines are evolving and unique and, most importantly, physical. I respect what a huge undertaking making a magazine is, and I want to highlight some of my favorite ones for...
Poetry Month
We are thrilled to kick off National Poetry Month with a poem from Kevin Powers’s debut collection (now available!!!), Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting
Blue Star Mother
fff Compare my sins to this, for instance, my mother refusing to have her picture taken, always raising up her hands the moment that the shutter clicks, so that looking back on the photographic evidence of my life one could be easily convinced I was raised by a woman whose face was the palm of a hand.
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Here is my secret. It is very simple. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Antoine de Saint Exupéry in The Little Prince, published on April 6, 1943
Song: “Simple Song” by The Shins
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With the NCAA’s March Madness tournament winding down, and with The Morning News’s Tournament of Books drawn to a close, you can still indulge your bracketological yearnings by participating in Powell’s Books’s Poetry Madness or by checking out NPR’s Ides of March Madness.
New Murals from Blu on the Streets of Italy
Today in interesting mash-ups: Batman by Dostoyevsky. (via)
We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.
from A Sketch Of The Past by Virginia Woolf (via shakespearewasaunicorn)
“Everybody’s a realist offering true accounts of the activity of mind. There are only realists.” —Donald Barthelme, born on this day in 1931.
