When four-year-old Ayden Benesh cut his forehead, giving rise to a small gash, he refused to go to school the next day. Too embarrassed of the scratch, one he received doing devilish jumps from an epic pile of laundry, he instead confined himself to his home to wallow and sulk in self-consciousness. Enter Brittaney, awesome mom with the cutest idea ever. Taking up a Crayola crayon, mom transformed Ayden from ‘boy who jumped from laundry pile’, to the boy who lived. With a quick swipe above and below the gash (and some Potter style spectacles to complete the …
When the city begins to swelter, inevitably filling the subway with bodies and ambiguous odors, the New York commute becomes increasingly unbearable. Once the summer heat hits, you can count on sweating through your shirt, pants and shoes long before you’re even two stops deep, and the prospect of making it to work not dripping in sweat is slim to none. Luckily, there is refuge and ‘Fake Book Cover Guy’ Scott Rogowsky is our savior. If you’ve ever commuted in the city, maybe you’ve had the blessing of seeing this amazing human being. In April, you could have spotted him reading Ass Eating Made Simple, …
The actor-slash-director-slash-writer-slash-feminist rock star surprised the book world this week with her new title, Is it Evil Not to Be Sure? The diary style autobiography chronicles Dunham’s final year as a teen in the chaotic, crazed, and always cringe-worthy moments of late adolescence. Dunham rediscovered the dated, more awkward version of herself while recovering from surgery in the hospital. On an old hard drive dated from 2005, she found her younger self in the thick of teenage angst, in entries that spanned an entire year in meticulous detail. It was like reaching across the folds of time to find another you, …
We’ve all heard the phrase ‘you are what you eat’, probably coming from the mouth of an old toothless relative who’s dietary guidance seems shaky at best. But you rarely hear someone say ‘you are what you read’ which seems a bit more fitting. Reading is kind of like the original Method acting – you slip into character and even after the book is through, it can be difficult to disentangle yourself from the text. But a group of researchers at Ohio State and Michigan State are trying to do just that, disentangling the book from the attitude and looking …
Every bookworm knows the joy of holding an old book. The weight in your hand, the tattered binding, the gauzy thin pages, and of course that sweet aroma. It’s a hybrid smell somewhere between your grandma, the smoky remains of a wax candle, and stale cornflakes. It’s the same smell that hits you when you walk into the library, and the kind all new books dream of one day acquiring. And now, thanks to Sweet Tea Apothecary, you can smell just like this grandma-candle-cornflake hybrid, with Dead Writers, the new scent inspired by the smell of old books. Old book smell, meet …
