A weekly newsletter with four quick bites, edited by Tim Leffel, author of A Better Life for Half the Price and The World’s Cheapest Destinations. See past editions here, where your like-minded friends can subscribe and join you. Please Switch Your Search Engine The latest company to get fat and bloated, the innovator turned evil empire,...

Books That Belong On Paper first appeared on the web as Wink Books and was edited by Carla Sinclair. Sign up here to get the issues a week early in your inbox. COMFORT EATING WITH NICK CAVE: VEGAN RECIPES TO GET DEEP INSIDE OF YOU Comfort Eating with Nick Cave: Vegan Recipes to...

Once a week we’ll send out a page from Cool Tools: A Catalog of Possibilities. The tools might be outdated or obsolete, and the links to them may or may not work. We present these vintage recommendations as is because the possibilities they inspire are new. Sign up here to get Tools for Possibilities a week early in your inbox. ...

Sign up here to get Recomendo a week early in your inbox. “50 things I know” Sasha Chapin, author of All the Wrong Moves: A Memoir About Chess, Love, and Ruining Everything, recently wrote a list of 50 things he knows. Here are a few samples: I know that travel is valuable because most knowledge can’t be written down. The most crucial...

A weekly newsletter with four quick bites, edited by Tim Leffel, author of A Better Life for Half the Price and The World’s Cheapest Destinations. See past editions here, where your like-minded friends can subscribe and join you. A Hole in the Wall Earns a Michelin Star In a move that made street food fans cheer, the new Michelin Guide...

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