Working on a literary history of Chicago - Author of Progressivism's Aesthetic Education: bit.ly/2AhdjaH - Co-creator of the Chicago Writing Gallery at the American Writers Museum - let's talk about cooking, ceramics, ebikes
Jesse Raber
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Revisiting *The Sorrows of Young Werther* ... is this the first YA novel?
(I.e., prose fiction appealing to the age when you first discover romance, but not to younger kids and not much to older adults?)
this to me is peak bluesky
Maybe I should add, to get more finely tuned recs, that the 8yo loves art and dance and fashion and the 4yo is mostly game for whatever
Got Diderot the GOAT, can't complain. (Voltaire, though ... I don't know her)
(what do you call that joke? -- the Indo-Europeans!)
Going to NYC for the first time in forever this summer, and for the first time with kids. Your favorite not-super-obvious things to do there with a 4 and an 8 year old?
My contribution to today's Discourse is that we aren't talking enough about the secret third thing that is neither hunter-gathering nor agriculture: nomadic pastoralism. That one is the real yikesaroonie.
What if you had all the inheritable wealth of agriculture, but also little ability to specialize labor, and your subsistence only required a fraction of the labor of agriculture? In other words, what if you could afford to send like most of your dudes to war all the time?
