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Dec 27, 2024 | 
altaonline.com | Blythe Roberson
My ex-boyfriend was always trying to get me to eat his meat. Shockingly, this isn’t a euphemism. He was a hunter; I was a vegan. Hunting was important to him, and he wanted to share it with me. When I met him, it had been a dozen years since I’d read Eating Animals, and yes, the only thing more embarrassing than being a vegan is being a vegan because Jonathan Safran Foer told you to.
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
newyorker.com | Blythe Roberson
Like many other people who have looked at a city and thought, I could probably plan that, I am spending 2024 following along with the “99% Invisible” podcast book club and reading “The Power Broker.” I’m only six hundred pages in, and already Robert Caro’s 1974 masterpiece is changing my life. Here’s how:I am getting yolked. Who needs weight training when you’re carrying around “The Power Broker”? My biceps are ripped. My neck muscles are bulging.
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Jun 11, 2024 | 
rfr.bz | Shahnaz Habib |Blythe Roberson |Jedidiah Jenkins
Perceptive Travel Book Reviews June 2024by Gillian KendallAirplane Mode: An irreverent history of TravelBy Shahnaz HabibIt's dizzying to critique a book about travel that critiques other books about travel, which are themselves critiques of the places they're about.
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Mar 20, 2024 | 
atlasobscura.com | Blythe Roberson
On April 8, the Great North American Eclipse will carve a line from Mexico to the Midwest to Canada, treating those within the 115-mile path of the totality to four minutes of darkness in the middle of the day. Seeing the sun’s corona hanging in an otherwise nighttime sky, watching (and feeling!) the sun gradually disappear – it’s an experience you won’t forget and one well worth traveling for.
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Mar 8, 2024 | 
altaonline.com | Blythe Roberson
The theme of the fourth annual John Prine Night in the backyard of the only grocery store in Marathon, Texas, is “Blow Up Your TV.” It’s not just a reference to a Prine lyric; the boys running this show are actually about to blow up a television. Perched on a metal garbage can is a vintage TV from back when TVs were the size of an entire room. Streamers and sparklers decorate its edges and, just for clarification, white tape spells out “TV” across its screen.
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Feb 5, 2024 | 
atlasobscura.com | Blythe Roberson
When you think of enormous living things, you might think of a giraffe, an elephant, a hundred-foot blue whale, or that terrifying bug you just saw that really shouldn’t be so big. But in fact, the largest living organism, if we’re measuring by volume, is a tree. Specifically, it’s the General Sherman Tree in California’s Sequoia National Park, an hour and a half drive from Fresno. At 275 feet tall, the General Sherman Tree is as tall as three blue whales are long.
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Dec 21, 2023 | 
altaonline.com | Blythe Roberson
In New York City, we’ve overused the cowboy emoji and the word yeehaw for years. We flock to the Dolly Parton–themed bar in Brooklyn, and we stand in line outside a New Mexican breakfast burrito place the night after hooking up with a guy whose parents live in Santa Fe (they retired there from Jersey). And of course, for no reason at all, we all own a pair of cowboy boots. But now, finally, we have an actual reason to wear those boots. No, it’s not…taking care of cows?
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Dec 18, 2023 | 
atlasobscura.com | Blythe Roberson
Far, far below the surface of the ocean, stretching deeper than sunlight can penetrate, deeper at points than Mount Everest is tall, is the largest and most mysterious ecosystem on the planet: the deep sea. The water there is nearly freezing, the pressure enormous. Light is either scarce or completely absent. For much of human history, this punishing environment was thought to be completely devoid of life.
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Nov 16, 2023 | 
bookriot.com | Freya Marske |Claire McMillan |Claire Mcmillan |Patrick Bringley |Blythe Roberson
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. We only want the best for you, and that’s why we’re sharing the best books of 2023! If these haven’t already made your list, be sure to add them to your TBR. From nonfiction to romance to children’s to horror — and everywhere in between — we’ve got you covered.
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Jul 26, 2023 | 
washingtonpost.com | Blythe Roberson
July 26, 2023 at 5:45 a.m. EDT(Nhung Le for The Washington Post) Blythe Roberson, a comedy writer, is the author of “How to Date Men When You Hate Men” and, most recently, “America the Beautiful?”I never would have consented to having a boyfriend if covid hadn’t forced me. More precisely: I would have had a boyfriend for about three months and then bailed, which is what I was about to do in March 2020.
