“Even those YA novels which aren’t [fantasy] deal with teenage lives that are considerably more exciting than the reality – and people have noticed.” Check Twitter for #realisticYA and the even funnier #VeryRealisticYA.
Tag: 03.30.15
How To Be An Independent Musician
“In many ways, it’s easier to be an independent artist in 2015. We can arm ourselves with knowledge about the way things work. We can put something on YouTube and it becomes popular. We can access a huge mixture of diverse music. There is a price, of course.”
Living Life Without The Brain’s Memory Center
“Her life is an endless series of jump cuts. In our age of pinging distractions, people often express a desire to ‘be present,’ but Johnson belies such sentimentality. She is marooned in the present.” A profile of an artist whose hippocampus was completely destroyed in 2007 by a viral infection – and what neuroscientists are learning about the brain from the things she can and cannot now do.
A Loss For Words: Can The Native Languages Of The Americas Be Saved – Or Even Resurrected?
Judith Thurman looks at the people – in Chile, Manhattan, the New York-Ontario borderlands, Hawaii, Massachusetts, and Ohio – who are trying.