Looking for something good to read that’s shorter than a book but longer than a blog post? Here are a few well-researched, well-written essays and articles from the past few months that I keep coming back to:
Stephen Hawking Thinks These 3 Things Could Destroy Humanity – via livescience
No. 37: Big Wedding or Small: The 36 Questions That Lead to Love, by Daniel Jones, author of Love Illuminated and editor of Modern Love – via the New York Times
Is AI a Threat to Humanity? by Greg Scoblete, by Greg Scoblete – via CNN
On Writing: Being Nestless, by Kimberly Brock, author of The River Watch – via Writers in the Storm
24 Things No One Tells You About Book Publishing, by Curtis Sittenfeld – via Buzzfeed
The Town Without Wi-Fi (a fascinating look at the National Radio Quiet Zone), by Michael Jay Gaynor, with photos by Joshua Cogan – via The Washingtonian
Home Sweet Homewreck: TheWorst Reno Story You Will Ever Hear, by Richard Warnica – via the National Post
The Murder That Has Obsessed Italy, by Tobias Jones – via The Guardian
When a Stranger Threatens Suicide, by Cynthia McCabe – via The Washington Post
Blackness Ever Blackening: My Lifetime of Depression, by Jenni Diski, via Mosaic Science
Why Are Palo Alto’s Kids Killing Themselves, by Diana Kapp, via SFGate
What to Call Her? (on being “adopted” by Doris Lessing), also by Jenni Diski – via London Review of Books
How Hollywood Keeps Out Women, by Jessica P. Ogilve, via LA Weekly
Burn After Reading, by Gabriel Thompson, via Harper’s
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