Magnolias are thermogenic and their blooms produce real cellular heat. This is thought to be a reward for pollinating beetles and an encouragement for them to linger.
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The BeReal app, intended to be an antidote to social media, is said to make users feel worse than using Instagram.
↩︎ BuzzFeed News
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Laura Maw: Like the idea of “horrible architecture” (an actual concept), much of the web is full of “decay, ruin, and derelict.”
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To manage the rising risk of extreme rainfall, New York City needs to get spongier. (A study found it to be 30 percent “spongy.”)
↩︎ Bloomberg
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More phenomena of this kitschy low-status Americanisation include the immense popularity of country music clubs, vintage US cars, and pole dancing across France, as well the spread of the Buffalo Grill restaurant chain in…
A Tokyo cafe is only for writers on deadline. Customers can’t leave until finished, but can choose the tone of their reprimands.
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“Often when incarcerated writers publish their work, it comes with punitive results.” How to maintain a literary life in prison.
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For the moment when the interlocutor finally comes calling. From David Lehman’s “Questions to Ask for a Paris Review Interview”
Do you have a favorite time of day? Favorite weather?
Tell me about your writing process.
Is that so? I would never have guessed.
Do you ever think about abandoning writing altogether?I’m sorry but I have to ask you this.
How is writing a novel like playing a game of chess?
One critic called your last book a “mess.”
What do you think of psychoanalysis?You once told me that the greatest human subject is lust.
Have you thought about how and where you’d like to die?
Certainly I can clarify.
I don’t mean now, but when you must.
Via the Paris Review’s daily poem newsletter.