Alyssa Ann

Bad Bunny’s closing messages during his Super Bowl performance:

“The only thing more powerful than hate is love”
“Together, we are America”

The Little Leaf that Wouldn’t Fall: A Tender Illustrated Parable about the Measure and Meaning of Love Two of the most dangerous myths we live with are the idea, handed down to us by the Romantics, that in true love two people meet each other’s every need and desire, and the idea, sold to us b…

The Little Leaf That Wouldn't Fall – a tender illustrated parable about the measure and meaning of love www.themarginalian.org/2025/12/19/b...

I am trying not to post on these events in this state of mind but: I hope people understand what the observers are doing is brave and dangerous.

Most people are so tired inside that one hug is enough to make them cry, because it reminds them, they are not alone in their pain.

(National Hug Day - Jan 21)

‘The Lion King’ co-director Roger Allers has passed away at the age of 76

The Disney veteran also worked on several other classics, including ‘Aladdin,’ ‘Beauty and the Beast,’ ‘Lilo & Stitch,’ and ‘The Emperor’s New Groove'

“Everyone knows what’s true: you make the world a better place than you found it or you make it worse. Anyone who tells you that isn’t so is just making an excuse for his own inaction.”
– Dana Spiotta, Eat the Document

Wrote about how the late, great Rob Reiner had the most impossible 7-movie beginning to any director's career, and yet that's not even what he was most famous for:

Books We Love Here are 380+ great reads from 2025 handpicked just for you by NPR staffers and trusted critics.

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The Velveteen Rabbit, Reimagined with Uncommon Tenderness by Beloved Japanese Illustrator Komako Sakai A sweet, timeless story of how the soft bonds of love confer realness upon our existence.

The Velveteen Rabbit (which is one of the world's great works of philosophy) reimagined in almost unbearably tender illustrations by Japanese artist Komako Sakai www.themarginalian.org/2015/02/23/t...

Cranberries. The band, the sauce, the season

How to demonstrate the worth of arts and humanities-based research Express the tangible benefits of your creative work and practices, by showcasing public value

"exemplars of public value offer an effective way of making the case for arts and humanities fields. By this, I mean a public staging of arts and humanities-based research to express its tangible value." bit.ly/4rcg2Yn

Opinion | Yes, Listening to a Book Counts as Reading

Yes, Listening to a Book Counts as Reading www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o... gift link

The Poems in “All Is The Telling” Ask: “What’s burned into my DNA?” Rosa Castellano’s All in the Telling provides one of the most thought-provoking explorations of biracial life in recent memory.

Excited to share my enthusiasm for Rosa Castellano's new book of poems, ALL IS THE TELLING, in @southrevbooks.bsky.social:

southernreviewofbooks.com/2025/06/05/a...

No, Mornings Don’t Make You Moral We are different people at different hours of the day, but an early bird isn’t superior to a night owl.

From 2015: Why being an early bird doesn’t make you superior.

The art of the sacred pause and despair as a catalyst for regeneration mailchi.mp/themarginali...

Exclusive: The Onion has opened a creative agency America’s Finest Creative Agency is “like a writer’s room and like a strategic and conceptual laser in your pocket,” The Onion’s CMO Leila Brillson said.

Very exciting news: The Onion has started a creative agency.

We've been doing this quietly for months, so if you've seen a funny ad somewhere, it may be us. But now it is a whole-ass company.

Anyway, we have killed Don Draper for a second time and revived his drunk ghost. Contact me to access him.

Seattle author who won a Pulitzer for her first book says she’s ‘one and done’ After spending 10 years working on her first book, “Feeding Ghosts” — and winning, to her astonishment, a Pulitzer Prize — Tessa Hulls says she’s never writing another book.

Tessa Hulls after winning a Pulitzer for her graphic memoir FEEDING GHOSTS: “I always said, one and done.…I am very much at peace with the fact that I’m never going to do something in this exact format again.” www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...

The Power of Prediction Is your brain a camera that records the world, or a projector that imposes pictures on it?

Catch the complete episode this Sunday at 11 am on @kalwradio.bsky.social 91.7 FM in San Francisco & online at www.kalw.org/show/philoso....

#PhilSky #philosophy #neuroscience

Joy Harjo:

Let Yourself Rage With Poet Laureate Ada Limón Modern Love · Episode

I loved this episode of the modern love podcast @nytimes.com with Ada Limon
Listen below.

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Do button-pushing dogs have something new to say about language? | Aeon Videos Inspired by a TikTok trend, a cognitive scientist developed the largest citizen science study in animal communication

Inspired by a TikTok trend, a professor of cognitive science at the University of California, San Diego developed the largest citizen science study in animal communication @uofcalifornia.bsky.social @ucsandiego.bsky.social

In an age where certainty is currency, doubt has become a radical act. What if doubt isn’t weakness but wisdom? buff.ly/JJz6j51

Craig Mod on the Creative Power of Walking This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. The fullest day I know of begins with taking a portrait of a stranger in the middle of nowhere by 10 a.m. I do this while …

new @literaryhub.bsky.social essay up today: The Creative Power of Walking

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Talking about mythology in the musical ‘Hadestown’: ‘It’s a sad song / But we sing it anyway’ In a panel discussion at Chicago’s National Hellenic Museum, cast members share what’s on their minds as they tell the story of Orpheus and Eurydice.

It was an absolute joy talking Greek mythology with the cast of #Hadestown at the National Hellenic Museum this past Thursday! 🏺🎶 With thanks to @broadwayinchicago.bsky.social for partnering with us and @emilymcclanathan.bsky.social for this great @chicagotribune.com story.

I'm so happy that this article is now online. I wrote about Javier and Kristin of Chicago's Exile in Bookville -- with help from @gillianflynn.bsky.social, Nathan Hill, and TJ Newman. Amazing people, amazing store.

Listen to Avril Lavigne team up with Simple Plan for "full-circle moment" on nostalgic new single 'Young & Dumb' Avril Lavigne has teamed up with Simple Plan for a collaborative new single called 'Young & Dumb' – listen here.

"It’s a tribute to the past, but also a celebration of the present" ❤️ Avril Lavigne and Simple Plan in 2003 being my first ever concert, a perfect full circle
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In the Matter of the Commas - The American Scholar For the true literary stylist, this seemingly humble punctuation mark is a matter of precision, logic, individuality, and music

Loved this essay on Renata Adler, comma master: "Her punctuation jars, and turns abruptly, like a skater’s blade stopping and sending up shards of ice."

Living his best life! 🐒

"A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind." ~ Isaac Bashevis Singer