Finalist for the National Book Award for PoetryWinner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection“[Smith's] poems are enriched to the point of volatility, but they pay out, often, in sudden joy.
Fixer by Edgar Kunz | East Bay Booksellers
A New York Times Editors’ Choice book from the author of the award-winning Tap Out – “a gritty, insightful debut” (Washington Post) – Edgar Kunz’s second poetry collection propels the reader across the shifting terrain of late-capitalist America.
My Vocabulary Did This to Me by Jack Spicer | East Bay Booksellers
An essential collection of a highly original American poetWinner of the Northern California Independent Booksellers Award for Poetry (2009)Winner of the American Book Award (2009)In 1965, when the poet Jack Spicer died at the age of forty, he left behind a trunkful of papers and manuscripts and a few copies of the seven small books he had seen to press.
The Most Misread Poem in America by David Orr
September 11, 2015 – Everyone knows Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken”—and almost everyone gets it wrong. From The Road Not Taken: Finding America in the Poem Everyone Loves
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
The Death and Life of Great American Cities is a 1961 book by writer and activist Jane Jacobs. The book is a critique of 1950s urban planning policy, which it holds responsible for the decline of many city neighborhoods in the United States. The book is Jacobs' best-known and most influential work.
Taxes, by Geese
Bret Victor - Stop Drawing Dead Fish
No Sense of Place by Joshua Meyrowitz | Open Library
No sense of place by Joshua Meyrowitz, unknown edition,
How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell: 9781612198552 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
** A New York Times Bestseller ** NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY: Time • The New Yorker • NPR • GQ • Elle • Vulture • Fortune • Boing Boing •...
US man dies by suicide after developing emotional bond with AI chatbot: 'I am scared to die'
Florida man suicide after weeks with Google Gemini chatbot sparks wrongful death lawsuit, raising urgent questions over AI safety and mental health safeguards.
My Objections to "We’re All Gonna Die with Eliezer Yudkowsky" — LessWrong
Introduction I recently watched Eliezer Yudkowsky's appearance on the Bankless podcast, where he argued that AI was nigh-certain to end humanity. Sin…
Geoff Shullenberger on Twitter / X
Günther Anders's "The Obsolescence of the Human," which was finally translated into English last year, is one of the books I most often recommend these days. Robert Bellafiore has written a lucid introduction to Anders's ever more relevant thought: https://t.co/MWiwSMeq6u— Geoff Shullenberger (@g_shullenberger) September 10, 2026
there is a piece to be written about this "no contact" as a very specific kind of moral panic about status, intergenerational mobility, and maybe dementia. because it is wild how much this no contact thing riles up older people.
Michael Hobbes
Another one. The premise: Young people are cutting off their parents for minor mistakes and misunderstandings. The lead anecdote: A woman severs ties with her family for refusing to get vaccinated before her wedding — to a man who *lost his mother and brother to COVID*
