susannah appelbaum

I feel this so deeply

10% of AMC movie showings sell no tickets at all. I made a site that finds them. Go enjoy your private theater

joan of arc’s signature taken from her letters

“Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and unambiguously relevant,” reads OpenAI's coding agent instructions. wired.com/story/openai-r…

mandatory Ursula K. Le Guin quote

Some good news: Since 2024, over 700 independent bookshops have opened. Print book sales have risen in each of the last two years. Denmark and Norway are spending millions to get screens out of schools and bring books back. *This* is what real progress looks like.

How fantastic is this? Amazing design for the cover of Orwell's 1984. The designer is David Pearson.

Old Appalachian baby names from Appalachian cemeteries. (IG: appalachian_bluebird)

One thing I love about new york is that its most important birds get obituaries

A chance find in a London archive has allowed a researcher to pinpoint the exact location of William Shakespeare’s London home for the first time. cnn.it/4dPyGkL

Cormac McCarthy’s estate is auctioning off his 1995 Lotus Esprit S4S on Hagerty Marketplace, if you’re interested. 18k miles. Highest bid is currently $2,600 (I expect it to go a good deal higher, of course). Close of auction is April 27th.

Happy “Headless Body In Topless Bar” Day, if you're observing it... 43 years ago today, April 15, 1983, the legendary NY Post managing editor, the late Vincent A. Musetto wrote the greatest headline of all time…

A new historical fiction novel on early Dutch Manhattan is getting some pretty decent reviews.

Years ago I sublet my apt to 2 art students, Mia Goyette & Calla Henkel. When I came back I had to reorganize books and papers, found a spiralbound book I didn't recognize. Mia had compiled a document, The Library of Helen DeWitt, as an art project.

i gave every train in new york an instrument 🎧 sound on trainjazz.com

A medieval manuscript that was peed on by a cat while writing. Monk was forced to leave the rest of the page empty, drew a picture of a cat and cursed the creature with the following words: "Here is nothing missing, but a cat urinated on this during a certain night. Cursed be the pesty cat that urinated over this book during the night in Deventer and because of it many others [other cats] too. And beware well not to leave open books at night where cats can come."

Spotted at a No Kings protest in Durham, North Carolina! Epic creativity!

Musketeer d'Artagnan's remains believed found under Dutch church bbc.in/4d5wmpn

If you're cremated after you die, you can be put into an hourglass and continue to participate in family game night.

British parrot missing for four years returns speaking Spanish ind.pn/1v7kKpG