E-reader: Women who cook, rock and critique
Ina Garten Does It Herself by Choire Sicha, 30-minute read, Eater, free Choire Sicha traces the circuitous career and humongous success of Food Network star and cookbook guru Ina Garten....
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E-reader: When stories are digital, who pays the bill?
Welcome to the Block Party by Casey Johnston, 25-minute read, The Awl, free Casey Johnston writes about the future of advertising and Internet publishing. From pop-ups to autoplay videos, Internet...
E-reader: Coping with loss online
What Happens When a Parent's Grief Goes Viral? by Alex Ronan, 30-minute read, Buzzfeed, free Instagram lets users share the most photo-worthy aspects of their life, but how does social...
E-reader: When people break down, body and soul
My Brother's Keeper by Jessie Guy-Ryan, 20-minute read, The Verge, free Over the years, Jessie Guy-Ryan has learned not to trust her brother. A drug addict with several prison stints...
E-reader: Lessons on mortality from a trio of angles
On Fear by Ellis Avery, 20-minute read, Kindle Singles, $2.99 When Ellis Avery was diagnosed with a rare cancer called leiomyosarcoma, she made a frightening decision to forgo chemotherapy and...
E-reader: Houses care of Oprah, but no place like home
Oprah's Angels by Peter Moskowitz, 60-minute read, Kindle Singles, $2.99 Ten years after Hurricane Katrina, Peter Moskowitz visits the residents of Angel Lane, a Houston housing development created for displaced...
E-reader: TriQuarterly treasures now available online
TriQuarterly Archives, www.triquarterly.org, free TriQuarterly has digitized its first 137 print issues spanning the last half-century. (The journal moved online in 2010.) Housed by Northwestern University, the prestigious lit mag...
E-reader: Ruth Ozeki looks deep into her face
The Face: A Time Code by Ruth Ozeki, 60-minute read, Kindle Single, $2.99 "What did your face look like before your mother and father were born?" Ruth Ozeki sets out...
E-reader: Finding more than grief in loss
The New Normal by Stephanie Wittels Wachs, 20-minute read, Medium, free Stephanie Wittels Wachs paints a bravely intimate portrait of grief in "The New Normal," a personal essay remembering her...
E-reader: Toying with culture
How Minions Destroyed the Internet by Brian Feldman, 15-minute read, The Awl, free By now, you've seen Minions everywhere — the bright yellow, goggle-wearing, gibberish-speaking henchman who debuted in the...