“You want to throw yourself in places people have never been.”
Listen to New Yorker writer Nicholas Schmidle on the Longform podcast.
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The Wall Street Journal takes a look at our Creatavist platform, a.k.a. apps for everybody!
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Objects of the Journey, on the prized possessions Central American migrants take with them to the U.S., by photographer Nikhol Esterás.
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We’ve got a bunch of great ebook bundles on sale right now on Fab.com, but only for a limited time!
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We were at the New York Comics Symposium the other day, talking nonfiction comics, Stowaway, and Creatavist.
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An excerpt from the latest issue of Symbolia Magazine.
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“At best you affect the consciousness of your time, and so indirectly you affect the history of the time which succeeds you. Of course, you need patience. It takes a long time for sentiments to collect into an action and often they never do. Which is why I was once so ready to conceive of running for mayor of New York. I wanted to make actions rather than effect sentiments. But I’ve come to the middle-aged conclusion that I’m probably better as a writer than a man of action.”
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How hard is it to disappear in an online world?
Evan Ratliff talks to KPCC about his groundbreaking Vanish story for Wired, which will be released later this summer as an enhanced Creatavist story.
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“Beautiful, bikini model, gorgeous. “A Farah Fawcett look-alike,” she was actually a contestant for the title. This is what you’ll hear about Debra Davis, as well as the fact she was murdered by her jealous boyfriend, who says he looked on while Whitey Bulger strangled her.” -David Boeri, from WBUR’s new series on the mobster.
