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Reading Week #9 – Reviewing Cups, Hazelnuts & Historical Cats

05.30.2014 by Nicola Balkind //

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Happy Friday!

This week I’ve been mostly cat-sitting, working up to my upcoming sabbatical, and getting ready for Small is Beautiful.

I also got around to reading through most of my Pocket list – so hold in, it’s a big one!

 

 –– On ROBOTNIC.CO ––

Sorry, move along, nothing to see here…

But elsewhere I did cover Investing in Your Microbusiness and I blogged some picks for Edinburgh International Film Festival!

 

–– ARTS & CULTURE ––

Reasons to Be Optimistic During the Disruption of Publishing: thoughts and excellent recommendations from Jane Friedman.

A lovely piece on friendship and self-discovery: While Writing for ‘Orange Is the New Black,’ I Realized I Am Gay.

This lady is a badass. Nellie Bly’s Lessons in Writing What You Want To.

The Los Angeles Review of Cups. Witty reviews of Jonathan Safran Foer’s “genius” stories-on-Chipotle-cups project.

The art of letter-writing is alive and well on This Recording: In Which We Travel Too Far Back.

 

–– DIGITAL ––

 LiveJournal is awaiting a revamp. Yes, that LiveJournal. I’m torn somewhere between “Yuss!” and “How very dare you?!”

3-second distractions are enough to throw you off-course… and more depressing work-related gems in The Science of Us, via NY Mag.

We’re all aggregators now, says Ann Friedman – along with some tips on how to be ethical about it.

 

–– LONGFORM / JOURNALISM ––

How YouTube and Internet Journalism Destroyed Tom Cruise, Our Last Real Movie Star – excellent stuff on film, celebrity, and how the internet changed it all, by Amy Nicholson.

A postcard from San Francisco. A sad one, at that.

 

–– &c. ––

Nutella: How the world went nuts for a hazelnut spread: one of humanity’s greatest inventions.

The company is the number one user of hazelnuts in the world, buying up 25% of the entire world production.

 

An earnest appreciation of @historicalcats, by Caitlin Dewey.

Currently reading: The Secret History by Donna Tartt (still!)

 

What’s making you happy this week?

 

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