Max Nussenbaum

Nov 5, 2024 | experimental-history.com | Adam Mastroianni |Max Nussenbaum |Lisa Sibbett

It’s Election Day in the US, which means everybody is waiting in lines and refreshing their newsfeeds all day, looking for things to do in between bouts of freaking out. So I’m gonna keep things light with the quarterly links ‘n’ updates post, a roundup of stuff I’ve been reading for the past few months. We’ve known since Roman times that lead pipes can poison people. So uh...why have we used them for ~2000 years? Have we just been poisoning ourselves all this time?

Jun 7, 2024 | candyforbreakfast.email | Max Nussenbaum

You’re reading Candy for Breakfast, a newsletter about funny feelings, weird careers, making art, American history, and how to be alive. A quick announcement: at 1:30 pm Eastern on Tuesday June 18, I’ll be leading a Zoom session for Foster on doing weird things with metaphors. It’s open to the public, so RSVP here if you’re interested. In my darker moments, I fantasize about running for office, just so I could write a memoir about it afterwards.

Jun 12, 2023 | candyforbreakfast.email | Max Nussenbaum

Getting too serious about creating anything ruins your ability to enjoy it uncritically. Once I started writing, it became impossible to read an essay without a piece of my brain trying to take it apart and see how it worked. Once I restored an old house, it became impossible to walk into a room without noticing the sloppy painting or the misaligned moulding.