Paris is for readers. Five literary hotels, by me, for Conde Nast Traveller.
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I'm Jean Hannah Edelstein, a writer, editor and author. This used to be my personal blog, but now I just use it for amusing and interesting internet ephemera. Head to www.jeanhannahedelstein.com for the full-strength version of what I'm thinking and writing.
I'm Jean Hannah Edelstein, a writer, editor and author. This used to be my personal blog, but now I just use it for amusing and interesting internet ephemera. Head to www.jeanhannahedelstein.com for the full-strength version of what I'm thinking and writing.
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n. a conversation in which everyone is talking but nobody is listening—each telling stories of their grandparents, their funny dog story, their embarrassing high school memory—together overlaying disconnected words like a game of Scrabble, each player borrowing bits of other anecdotes as a way to increase their own score, until we all run out of things to say.
(via somethingchanged)
“A traveler could fly every day for an average of 123,000 years before being in a fatal crash.”
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Meanwhile, the risk of dying as a result of medical errors (~100,000 per year) is three times the risk of dying in a car crash in America (~30,000 per year).
2012 Was the Safest Year for Airlines Globally Since 1945
(via jayparkinsonmd)
Worth remembering, fellow flying-fearers!
(via jayparkinsonmd)
“The Bell Jar was published at the same time as Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer was reissued after its long ban in the USA. The misogynist masterpiss billets half the population to the whorehouse. All women are for sex. Rich women are for cash. Poor women are for housework. Why wouldn’t a woman go mad in a world like this? Why wouldn’t a woman as gifted as Plath become terminally depressed and end in suicide? Pills don’t change the world. Feminism did.”
— That’s Jeanette Winterson, in the Guardian’s round-up of reflections on Plath’s legacy. I really liked it, except: considering how many of the writers included reflected on issues of gender, and considering how (as Sarah Churchwell writes) ‘[The Bell Jar] has tended to be dismissed along gender lines, as a book “merely” for women’, it seems a shame, if a predictable one, that none of the writers invited to comment were men.
Hey, it’s a copy of the only book on breakfast that you’ll ever need. Get your own copy to learn about things like laverbread and congee and kippers, and the correct milk-to-cereal ratio. Breakfast!
“Daniel did not wear his mittens on a string. Daniel’s mittens were discrete. Daniel was clever and studied a lot, which was very attractive, but he also had an air of alluring danger. Daniel was inclined to say things like: I have taken every drug there is except heroin because I am afraid of needles.”
— On being young, and a bit in love, on wearing mittens on a string: a new essay for This Recording.
My colleagues have forced me to make a major lifestyle change.
I wrote a short blog post about Joey Barton’s tweet, Beyonce, and ‘the sisters’.
TL;DR: Go home, Joey Barton. You are drunk.
<3 this is very nice.
New Tegan and Sara! This is so good/reminds me of my Canadian youth*.
*even though I’m not Canadian
