Spotlight Site: Kitchen Butterfly
“They say a picture is worth a thousand words… These few words are worth a thousand pictures on social media.”
Robert Cottrell on Kitchen Butterfly, Ozoz Sokoh’s Nigerian food blog.
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Spotlight Site: The Marshall Project
“If you want to see journalism at its best, then this is the place to go. Of Bill Keller’s two editorships, the second may yet be the greater.”
Continuing his weekly series on the best of the web, Robert Cottrell admires The Marshall Project.
Spotlight Site: Altucher Confidential
“James Altucher is the Mozart of oversharing…” Robert Cottrell’s Spotlight Series visits Altucher Confidential, with a short detour via Medium.
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Spotlight Site: Ask the Pilot
“Answers to all those questions you have always wanted to know about the inner workings of airlines, but no longer dare ask for fear of ending up on a no-fly list.”
Robert Cottrell’s Spotlight Site series continues with ‘Ask the Pilot’, a blog run by Patrick Smith.
Spotlight Artist: Shallon Fadlien
“Being a woman, I think that feminism cannot be divorced from my art.”
John Robert Lee interviews Shallon Fadlien.
Spotlight Site: Nico Muhly
“He approaches the work of others with the expertise and shared delight of a practitioner. His post on ‘Beyoncé’ is surely one of the finest record reviews ever written.”
Robert Cottrell visits Nico Muhly’s blog.
Spotlight Site: Aeon
“This is the opposite of dumbing-down. This is smarting-up…”
Robert Cottrell on Aeon and the proliferation of wonderful writing in the field of popular science.
Poet of the Month: Nathalie Handal
“It’s important our works are read beyond the wreckages of where we come from…”
Nathalie Handal, The Missing Slate’s Poet of the Month, talks to Pratyusha Prakash.
Author of the Month: DC Diamondopolous
“I get up every morning and write. After that I go for a long walk and come back and write until late afternoon. I like structure. It helps me with being creative.” DC Diamondopolous, our August Author of the Month, talks to Quinn Korreck.
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Spotlight Site: Edge
“Oscar Wilde said something to the effect that he never needed to go out in the evening when he could find such wit and wisdom in the books he had at home. I feel something similar when I read interviews on Edge.”
Robert Cottrell’s Spotlight Site series visits John Brockman’s Edge.