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For a richer, fuller life wake up and read. National Library Week ยท Apr. 16-22 1961Picture
Good stuff on the internet
An occasionally updated list
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ProPublica: "Investigative journalism with moral force."

John Moore: Photographer, witness to history, mensch.

Brooklyn Fishing Club: U
niting urban anglers everywhere.

Judy Holliday on What's My Line?

Boing Boing: Still the best group blog ever.

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Daryl Davis: A black musician who "converts" racists.

Viking kittens: "Our only goal will be the western shore."

Natalie Angier: A phenomenal science writer.

The great dance scene from Spike Lee's "BlacKKKlansman."

Theodore Roethke: American poet.


Joe Donnelly: LA-based writer, editor, starter, finisher.

Voyager's Golden Record: A time capsule "intended to communicate a story of our world to extraterrestrials."

JaneGoodall.org: "She blazed the trail."

The charming weirdness of twisted bi-layer graphene: An excellent article on a "magic" material.

"Death of a Pig": A 1948 essay by E.B. White that somehow gets better with age.

Bill Ray: Late, great LIFE magazine photographer and raconteur.


Esquire Classic: From a vast archive, Alex Belth's selection of stories "that reflect what's going on now."

Bonus Belth! 
Bronx Banter: Alex's excellent, long-lived blog.

Paul Goldberger: Pulitzer-winning architecture critic.

Seamus Heaney recites his poem, "Whatever You Say, Say Nothing"

Creamsicle Blue: An unsentimental, impressionistic gem from Mike DeCapite.

The Nature Conservancy:
Fighting the good fight.

Carl Zimmer's thoughtful advice for beginning writers.

"Starry Night": A Jean-François Millet painting that might have inspired Van Gogh's swirly masterpiece.




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