Maria Popova: Books are the Original Internet

Feb 17, 2019-- Maria Popova is a Bulgarian-born writer, blogger, literary and cultural critic living in Brooklyn, New York. She writes Brain Pickings, a blog she calls "my one-woman labor of love." In this interview by Oscar Schwartz, she says "Books are the original internet." Schwarts calls her "switched on, irresistibly articulate, fully engaged...She talks about complex ideas in a way that transforms them into something I want to talk about with my friends. She makes big concepts relevant." (7843 reads)
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A cicada shell;
it sang itself
utterly away.
Matsuo Basho, Translated by R.H. Blyth

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