sistahfriendsproject:

London-born, Bed Stuy-based sistah Shantell Martin featured in NYTimes slideshow, peep her home wall drawings here: http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2012/05/23/greathomesanddestinations/20120523-LOCATION.html#1

http://www.shantellmartin.com/

-sonia

I wrote this piece! Check out the cover of the NYT Home section today… :)

"Ask any publisher whether they would rather have the Proust and Joyce backlists or those of the Nora Roberts and Tom Clancy of Proust’s and Joyce’s day. Really good stories, like really good wines, really do drink well for a longer time."

Adam Gopnik (again), Can Science Explain Why We Tell Stories? : The New Yorker (via housingworksbookstore)

Slivvy sliv

lfmccullough:

Hoop dreams. #nofilter (Taken with Instagram at Marion Street Elementary School)

I live near the W. 3rd St. courts. ❤

explore-blog:

A 12-year-old Victoria Grant’s exquisite critique of the banking system, concluding with a proposed solution. She’s speaking about Canada, but the gist applies to just about any industrialized nation. 

(ᔥ Dangerous Minds)

Thermosteez

rookiemag:

May 9, 2012

Big hugs, Rubes.

Love to Ruby xoxo 

motherjones:

npr:

nprfreshair:

hwentworth:

Internet’s over, people.  Maurice Sendak just won.

Fresh Air remembers Maurice Sendak

Higher praise there could not be. —Wright

Heavens.

“He loved your card so much he ate it.” #sendak

mrdiv:

rough_seas

sarahwrotethat:

A book spine poem:

Here is New York
Something like ten million
In September, the light changes