“The More You Work on It, the Easier It Gets”: A Conversation with Smitten Kitchen’s Deb Perelman
One of the web's most successful food bloggers talks about her writing voice, holiday cooking, and more.
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Building an Online Home: Essayist Melissa Matthewson’s Simple and Effective Front Page
Melissa Matthewson has a minimal website to showcase her growing archive of writing.
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After the Final Curtain: Matt Lambros Photographs America’s Movie Theaters in Ruins
Photographer Matt Lambros captures the decaying past in America's abandoned movie theaters.
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    “If there’s something contradictory about being a white supremacist and loving America, the people who chanted U-S-A while Donald Trump insulted Muslims and Mexicans haven’t gotten that memo.”
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    When there’s too much and too little to say, poetry often shows us the way.
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    The blog of a home interiors company in England inspires and informs its customers.
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    At My Jerusalem Kitchen, food blogger and mother Lauren Wilner shares her daughter Nava’s birth story — followed by a nap-friendly soup recipe.
    The Armored Coconut

    Marika Malaea reflects on being a brown white girl: “My whole life has been me thinking that I’m super incognito, when I’m actually the painted elephant in the room, whispering, ‘So what are we all staring at?’”
    I Would Rather Sit on a Pumpkin…

    Clara Lucille on solitude’s restorative properties: “And yet, for solitude to find its value, it must be broken. Solitude is most effective when it is short.”
    A Geek Girl’s Guide

    Michelle Anneliese, a self-described “Ravenclaw from District 13,” writes on various aspects of geek culture — from gaming and cosplay to Harry Potter — with a fresh, always-curious perspective.
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    “If there’s something contradictory about being a white supremacist and loving America, the people who chanted U-S-A while Donald Trump insulted Muslims and Mexicans haven’t gotten that memo.”
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    Author and speaker Charles Eisenstein publishes thought-provoking essays on politics, current events, international issues, science, the environment, and more.
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    VSB — short for Very Smart Brothas — is a daily digital magazine offering commentary, essay, and humor about news, pop culture, race, and sex.
    Parachute journalism and rural America’s revenge

    “Democrats and most of the mainstream media ignored what was happening in rural America until the morning after the election. And they ignored it at their own peril.” Post US-election, Truevine and Factory Man author Beth Macy writes about the forgotten citizens of rural America.