A Candid Look at Unread’s First Year To my knowledge, indie developers don’t publish the kind of numbers that you’ll find in this post. My sales records are none of your business , as the saying quite literally goes. The question in your mind will no doubt be why am I writing this at all? It’s a…

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So you've decided to spend a night in a cabin in the woods! You fool. You might as well sacrifice yourself to Satan and save yourself some time and effort. But if you and your friends feel you have to

…Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. —from “The Road Not Taken,” by Robert Frost, 1916 ROBERT FROST’S GIRLFRIEND: Where have you been? It’s 3 AM. ROBERT FROST: I got lost. ROBERT FROST’S GIRLFRIEND: What? ROBERT FROST: I took a…

This piece is part of Waterfronts, a series of personal essays that engage with the waterways of New York and/or Los Angeles, presented in collaboration with Underwater New York . I heard a story on NPR recently about a family living aboard a boat in the Pacific Ocean, in waters so unpredictable…

She has never felt any resentment that he became a musician and she didn’t. Could hardly call her amateur flute-playing a vocation. Envy? Only pride in the achievement that he was born for. She sits a

J immy Smith’s ranch sits on the Texas side of the Texas-Oklahoma border, in a little town called Burkburnett, named after a wolf-hunting buddy of Teddy Roosevelt’s. In 1918, a local farmer discovered

Originally posted at Next City . By Nancy Scola. Until recently, Abhi Nemani was the acting co-executive director of the San Francisco-based non-profit Code for America , a high-profile participant in

I n the heart of the Russian State Library, Marina Chestnykh takes the creaking elevator up to the ninth floor. She walks past stack after stack of books kept behind metal cages, the shelves barely vi

You’re about to publish that blog post but really want more people to engage — read, share, and respond to it. What do you do? Naturally, turn it into a catchy list of items perfectly packaged for cli

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Watch and learn Published in The Year of the Looking Glass · 6 min read · Jun 17, 2014 -- All right, you caught me. The title of this article is a bit too fancy-pants. Product Critique is some dressed

There has never been a novel more sympathetic to every weird thing people do to make themselves happy.

Rosemary Tonks (photo: Jane Brown) Last year we ran a post by Jonathan Law about the mysterious disappearance in the 1970s of the strange and brilliant poet Rosemary Tonks. Last month, new information

Or, my work addiction revealed Published in Also by Roy Bahat · 5 min read · May 16, 2014 -- This is an experiment: I had a harrowing little moment with my family, and told my wife I wanted to write i

BY SEAN VITKA Congress is beginning to learn the hard way that it must listen to the online community on matters of Internet freedom. When it doesn’t, we can deliver one hell of a black eye. The most

Rahman uses his novel to think hard about class, knowledge, and belonging. Illustration by David Despau There is a difference between knowingness and knowledge, but what is it? Knowingness comes after

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A while ago I wrote a post talking about how sometimes, the best and most important comparisons are those that are unfair, but relevant. This is a pretty good example of an unfair but relevant compari

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By the time the film Gravity won seven Academy Awards in March, casual viewers probably knew it as much for its arresting visual imagery as for its lengthy list of technical errors . Amplified by the Twitter feed of celeb astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, space watchers identified problems with…

Great anecdote from Elizabeth Warren's new memoir and great @daveweigel review: http://t.co/xlEebX8RBz

The Darwin fish isn't merely a clever joke; in effect, it contains a testable scientific prediction.

Photo: SuperStock, Inc./(C) 1999 SuperStock, Inc. Harold Evans, the publisher of Random House, calls me at The New Yorker, where I work. “I’d like to have a word with you,” he says. “Can we have coffe

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A mansion. A crash site. And the spark that ignited the Rwandan genocide.

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Illustration by Tom Bachtell In 1990, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn emerged from his isolation in Cavendish, Vermont, and issued a vatic manifesto entitled “How to Revitalize Russia.” Published at great leng

This undated image released by Titan Aerospace shows the company's Solara 50 aircraft. Facebook is in talks to buy Titan Aerospace, a maker of solar-powered drones, to step up its efforts to provide I

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Photograph by Raphael Satter / AP Before Edward Snowden sparked a global debate about government surveillance, it was a fact of life for Tadesse Kersmo. During Ethiopia’s national elections, in 2005,

For New York City’s startup community, the future venture capitalists have hoped for may be taking place right now. Over the past two days New York startups have announced nearly $200 million in fundi

Long before gamers were exploring vast three-dimensional worlds, text adventure games let players use their PC to read and explore whole new worlds. Or, in the case of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Ga

In the charming short documentary “My Kid and Me,” filmmaker Casey Neistat explores his relationship with his teenaged son Owen through the lens of a recent father-son trip the duo took to Machu Picch

Portrait of a Dying City Priceonomics Tin miner in Potosí, Bolivia; Zachary Crockett Adelmo rises at 3:30 am, stuffs a wad of coca leaves in his cheek, and descends into the bowels of the earth. His r

Last April, Dong Nguyen, a quiet 28-year-old who lived with his parents in Hanoi, Vietnam, and had a day job programming location devices for taxis, spent a holiday weekend making a mobile game. He wa