What does it mean to not consult wizards?
I’ve just learned that this steer-clear-of-wizards business is one of God’s 613 Mitzvot, or the commandments the big guy handed down to the Jews. These 613 laws are the backbone of a new people-powered project from Ben Brown called (RE)velation. The site lays out the Mitzvot—which are […]

This week I’m the guest editor over at SK*RT, the online community dedicated to finding the best stories on the Web as determined by its members. Like Digg, the more community members click on stories, the more prominently the stories are displayed. SK*RT has a certain feminine mystique about it, but, largely, good stories are […]

We packed the glorious Housing Works Bookstore with hundreds of the best people you could ever want to hear stories from—in six words or more. Contributors piled in from all over the country, including a certain 25 year-old Minnesotan who answers to the name Summer Grimes (seen on the still of the video below), and […]

Today, we had one of our biggest moments at SMITH, an appearance on NPR’s Talk of the Nation. I got to sit outside the production booth while Larry and Rachel chatted it up with Neal Conan. Very entertaining and fun to hear the book title roll off his tongue.