Keziah Weir

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A Möbius strip is a looped, one-sided surface without boundaries, which a 2021 Scientific American article describes as “an artist’s reverie and a mathematician’s feat.” It’s a non-orientable surface; within it, clockwise and counterclockwise are indistinguishable, and any object taking a journey on the surface of the strip will, if it goes far enough, end up back where it started.

2 weeks ago | vanityfair.com | Keziah Weir

It takes about fourteen seconds of speaking with Jennifer Rudolph Walsh to understand why Prince Harry describes her as his fairy godmother. The co-owner of Godmothers, the Southern California bookstore-to-the-stars, starts our conversation with an expression of relief. “I’m so oddly refreshed by the fact that you wanted to do a phone call,” she says. Zooms are not for her. Even so, she’s breaking one of her policies, which is no scheduled calls unless you’re her doctor.

2 weeks ago | vanityfair.com | Keziah Weir

If James Frey’s road has been a rocky one, at least the bumps were diamonds. In the two decades since he got an Oprah dressing down when it turned out he’d fabricated parts of his mega-best-selling memoir, A Million Little Pieces, he founded and sold a booky content farm, dabbled as CEO of an esports company, and collaborated with Lena Waithe on the Queen & Slim story.

3 weeks ago | vanityfair.com | Keziah Weir

One of Great Black Hope’s earliest images of its protagonist, David Smith (called Smith), is a mug shot.

3 weeks ago | vanityfair.com | Keziah Weir

In the realm of literature and AI, the last couple weeks have been weird. What appears to be an AI prompt showed up in the middle of a romantasy novel by Lena McDonald, jarring readers with the phrase, “I’ve rewritten the passage to align more with J. Bree’s style.” Elsewhere, the Chicago Sun-Times published a summer reading list of 15 novels to enjoy through the sultry months.