Maps and environmental degeneration
Nowadays global warming keeps mapmakers at least as busy as political upheaval does.
Nowadays global warming keeps mapmakers at least as busy as political upheaval does.
Recently I was commiserating with a writer friend about the trouble I have switching between different parts of my book. She had a surprisingly practical suggestion: Give each part its own soundtrack. Listen to different music as you work on each section, and make sure it’s the same music every time. And then, she said, the words just flow out. . . .
Maya Jaggi profiles Orhan Pamuk as he finishes his eighth novel, Museum of Innocence.
Klickitat Street, where Beverly Cleary’s Ramona, Beezus, & Henry live, is a real place. (Via.)