Ancient Grains Archive
Americanah, Pride and Prejudice, and All of the Feels
Ancient Grains, Books
Sep 19, 2013
I'm going to do something I try very hard to never do, and I think it's best if we just get the comparison out of the way so that we can move on. I have a friend who looks exactly--I mean exactly--like Maya Rudolph, which means that roughly four times a day someone
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Three Easy Meals That Will Change the World
Ancient Grains, Food
Sep 19, 2013
1.
Tea or Coffee
Doughnuts
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A Brief History of Slash
Ancient Grains, The Internet
Sep 19, 2013
A couple of years ago, I sat in on the first class of a seminar on cyberculture at Columbia, taught by Brenda Silver, which I sort of knew I wasn’t going to be able to take due to an over-full schedule, but wanted to check out anyway. In this first, massively overpacked,
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Feel the Burn: Plyometrics for Fun and Profit
Ancient Grains, Fitness
Sep 19, 2013
Previous installments of “Feel the Burn” can be found here. Last Time: Changing Your Body.
Jump around! Jump around! Etc. Plyometrics are something I, personally, am utterly atrocious at, having been magically born with literally zero explosive power. I have the box jump of a
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How To Effectively Remove Eye Makeup
Advice, Ancient Grains
Sep 19, 2013
It's time for the first, and possibly only, installment of Lazy, Gender-Neutral Beauty Advice. Options presented below in reverse order of effectiveness but chronological order with regard to frequency.
Gently--very gently--bat wet eyelashes in the shower over your extended forefingers repeatedly until enough mascara has Shroud of Turin'd itself onto your knuckles to merit
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Getting Better All the Time: On Self-Improvement
Ancient Grains, Work
Sep 19, 2013
In Joan Jacobs Brumberg's The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls, a book you may have overlooked due to the literally navel-gazing cover, there's a concept I've been thinking about this last week.
Brumberg, in her research, read thousands of diaries and magazines and memoirs
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Food Trolling With Mallory: All Apples Are Garbage
Ancient Grains, Food
Sep 18, 2013
Fall is a very busy time of year when it comes to getting upset about flavors. There is no shortage of opinions on pumpkins, or whether turkey is any good, or how to properly sauce a cranberry. Meanwhile, apples have been getting a free pass from food writers for years. "Oh, an
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A Dirty Run: Lydia Davis and Kierkegaard
Ancient Grains, Writing
Sep 18, 2013
Lydia Davis recently won this year's Man Booker International Prize, and a pavement-born wave of clammy guilt and embarrassment washed over me because I wasn’t familiar with her works. I bookmarked a few of her pieces published on various literary journal websites to add to the
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