Katherine Sharpe is a writer living in Brooklyn. Read more about her here.
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Just last week, I was washing dishes or something and thinking to myself it’s funny that light verse is dead. Turns out I thought too soon: The Digital Cuttlefish doles out social commentary in charming rhyme. I’m surprised I didn’t know about it already, considering how well-linked the blogging cephalopod is with the ScienceBlogs crew. [...]
This morning, something happened to me that was straight out of a kicky ’90s music video. Picture if you will: A brilliant fall morning. The young lady emerges from the door to her building, in her fall jacket, laptop bag clapping against one thigh, teacher-bag clapping against the other, and in her hands she’s balancing [...]
“Late Bloomers,” by Malcom Gladwell, in the current New Yorker. It’s about creative process, contrasting precocious wunderkind geniuses (like Picasso) with late-blooming masters of craft (like Cézanne). Gladwell describes these as two distinct types, but I have a feeling that the reality may be more of a continuum—a great Kinsey Scale of creativity. Definitely a [...]
I’m in a reading frenzy recently: two thick novels in the last ten days. I inhaled ‘Then We Came to the End,’ by Joshua Ferris, and then moved immediately into ‘The Emperor’s Children,’ by Claire Messud. Purely by coincidence, each novel features an unstable character whose catalytic effects on the plot are driven by an [...]
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