We have a long wait ahead of us until HBO releases the 8th season of Game of Thrones. Until 2019 to be exact. Can you deal? George R.R. Martin’s next book, The Winds of Winter is set to hit shelves during the long off season and will inevitably give us some answers on the fates of our favorite families and characters. Image Via Celebzz We are especially excited to see how much more badass one character in particular will become, now that we have finally (partially) figured out her purpose. But while we cant quite contain ourselves with excitement for the final episodes to begin, Maisie Williams (a.k.a. …
Coolest place to read a book in China if not the world? Look no further than Tianjin Binhai Library (also known as the Eye of Binhai). Image Via Getty Images Tianjin Urban Planning and Design Institute, along with Dutch architectural firm MVRDV, has designed the trippiest and coolest futuristic library in the sprawling metropolis of Tianjin, a city on the northern coast of China, in an effort to provide a cultural district for the city. Image Via World Atlas The Dutch firm’s approach to design reads that they are “pursuing a fascination for radical, investigative spatial research …
LISTEN UP PEOPLE. We are facing a language apocalypse. People are freakin’ out about the next perfect storm ripping through their hometowns and rising sea levels ruining ecosystems that have been thriving since the dawn of time, but what people haven’t been talking about is another ancient part of our everyday lives that is about to disappear: language. Language can offer insight into history and culture. So, the loss of language (known as aphasia) is also a loss of the past, and I don’t see many people who are too keen on losing their sense of self. The success of …
Stephanie Danler’s debut novel Sweetbitter is one of those “hasn’t changed my life but I am certainly glad I read it” kind of reads. What interested me the most about Sweetbitter, which has recently landed at Starz and will be adapted for TV by Brad Pitt, was the semi-fictitious account of Danler’s time working in hospitality. It certainly spoke to my experience of working in multiple restaurants and bars in New York. I started at each with a multitude of new faces, names, and stories to disentangle. Danler is gifted at harnessing an atmosphere and writing descriptively about it. Her carefully constructed sentences about …
Picture this: escape the monotony of your known world and apply to one of these writing residencies in locations that will induce the peace, quiet and the freedom that comes with disconnecting from your everyday routine. Most welcome all genres of writing and some offer the chance to live with other creatives from all over the world. These incubators of productivity are sure to inspire, nurture and enlighten the writer in you. 1. Wellstone Centre in the Redwoods Image Via Wall Street Journal The center hosting this writing residency is located in the Santa Cruz mountains of California …
