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1 month ago | 
newyorker.com | Dan Gilbert |Catherine Price |Ross Gay |William B. Irvine
Stumbling on Happinessby Dan GilbertGilbert researches the ways in which we’re bad at predicting what’ll make us happy, and what might hurt us. Prospection is an amazing power that humans have, but it’s kind of in beta version. One of our systematic errors is that we constantly overestimate the effects—magnitude and duration—that our circumstances will have on us. It’s what Gilbert refers to as impact bias.
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2 months ago | 
carrienewcomer.substack.com | Carrie Newcomer |Rebecca Solnit |Ross Gay
Inside the word "emergency" is "emerge"; from an emergency new things come forth. The old certainties are crumbling fast, but danger and possibility are sisters."— Rebecca Solnit (Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power)“what happens if joy is not separate from pain? What if joy and pain are fundamentally tangled up with one another?
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
indianapublicmedia.org | Katy Szpak |Ross Gay
Last Friday, WFIU's Noon Edition held its radio show at Viewpoint Books: Chapter Two in Columbus, Indiana. The panel included host Bob Zaltsberg, and featured best-selling author Michael Koryta, bookstore owner Beth Stroh and children’s librarian Lindsey Bailey. Listen to the show: Our favorite books this year, gift ideas and more | Noon EditionHere are the panelists’ book recommendations. Quotes have been edited for length and clarity. Koryta is the New York Times-bestselling author.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
poets.org | Carl Phillips |Ross Gay |Stuart Kestenbaum |Lars H Gustafsson
Carl Phillips’ most recent books are Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007–2020 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022), winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and My Trade Is Mystery: Seven Meditations from a Life in Writing (Yale University Press, 2022).
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Jun 18, 2024 | 
orionmagazine.org | Ross Gay
fromSwimming Lessons: Staying afloat in our flooded futureOFTEN WHEN I AM HEADING to my mother’s place in central Pennsylvania, I dip into a sweet little coffee shop called Little Amps. Their mascot is the amp, and the decor, some of it anyway, includes LPs on shelves high enough that you have to ask for help reaching them. They also have some milk crates of records, which I always flip through, and from time to time, I buy one.
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May 24, 2024 | 
brinkerhoffpoetry.org | Ross Gay
—after Gwendolyn BrooksNo matter the pull toward brink. Nomatter the florid, deep sleep awaits. There is a time for everything. Look,just this morning a vulturenodded his red, grizzled head at me,and I looked at him, admiringthe sickle of his beak. Then the wind kicked up, and,after arranging that good suit of feathershe up and took off. Just like that.
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May 17, 2024 | 
indianapublicmedia.org | Ross Gay |Alex Chambers
Media Player Error Update your browser or Flash plugin Read Transcript Hide Transcript Alex Chambers:A while back, Ross Gay was trying to write a book that was going to make him an expert. It was a book that would, as he put it, get him on the shows. He wasn't having much fun. And then he read, How Literature Saved My Life where David Shields wonders about himself and literature through a lot of short playful entries.
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Apr 2, 2024 | 
cbc.ca | Ross Gay
IdeasFor award-winning poet and bestselling author Ross Gay, joy and delight aren’t frivolous or a privilege. He argues they’re absolutely essential to a meaningful life, especially in the face of grief, sadness and suffering.
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Jan 24, 2024 | 
scnoneida.net | Neil King Jr. |Katie Holten |Ross Gay
The world’s greatest bodybuilder. The world’s highest-paid movie star. The leader of the world’s sixth-largest economy. That these are the same person sounds like the setup to a joke, but this is no joke. This is Arnold Schwarzenegger. And this did not happen by accident. Arnold’s stratospheric success happened as part of a process. As the result of clear vision, big thinking, hard work, direct communication, resilient problem-solving, open-minded curiosity, and a commitment to giving back.
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Jan 17, 2024 | 
artofmanliness.com | Ross Gay |Kate McKay
Reflect on something for a second: when was the last time you had fun? Are you having trouble remembering, and if you think about it, is it actually kind of hard to even describe what fun is? Don’t worry, if you feel like fun’s gone missing from your life, and are feeling a little dead inside as a result, Catherine Price and I are here to offer you a fun-tervention.
