Hello, friends! Join Matt Neapolitan and fellow Interintellects in Santa Monica to discuss Part I of Erik Larson's The Devil in the White City: A Saga of Magic and Murder at the Fair that Changed America. Following up on our recent book club, conversation about consciousness, and further discussions in the Los Angeles area ii Discord…
KORNIENKO コニンコー (that's me, Sophia Kornienko), journalist, animation artist and the host of the UnschoolingFuture Podcast, invites you to become part of her new project about kids' and teens' digital freedoms. I am writing/ illustrating a book, Free to Browse: Organic Contexts for Tech and Media Literacy (working title). Drawing from my family's experience as…
"How we gather is how we live." Join to discuss Priya Parker's "The Art of Gathering", share stories of meaningful gatherings (both hosted and attended) and become inspired for your own future get-togethers. Hosted by Mary Bajorek, a work life coach with a passion for designing meaningful experiences. Most gatherings (like birthdays, weddings, salons, meetings)…
Join Classicist Ashley Mehra and linguist Colin Gorrie to explore the roots of science fiction in the ancient world. In the second century Roman Empire, the Syrian satirist Lucian of Samosata wrote a short novel called A True Story (Greek: Ἀληθῆ διηγήματα, Latin: Vera Historia). In A True Story, the author reports a series of…
Join us for our next author talk in our worker organizing series, with Yvonne Martinez to discuss her new memoir, Someday Mija, You'll Learn the Difference Between a Whore and a Working Woman. The book chronicles Yvonne’s upbringing and family history in a Mexican family in Utah, weaving together how discoveries about family secrets including…
Chaïm Soutine's paintings hang in major art museums the world over, and yet much of what is said about the man and his work is untrue. In this salon, writer Celeste Marcus, now at work on the first English language biography of Soutine, will consider the question: does it matter that we don't know the…
Bria Sandford, executive editor at Penguin Random House, joins our community and hosts for a discussion on the book business in 2023, and how those with writing talent and ambition can get a step closer to being published in print. Members only exclusive, hosted by Anna Gát. *** 🗓 ii Calendar 📋 Code of Conduct
In this SuperSalon, special guest Sarah Hepola — author of Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget — joins host and Interintellect Editorial Lead Christin Balan to discuss her personal misadventures in "stumbling into sobriety" and all of the moments of laugh-out-loud humor and brutal honesty that journey entailed. "It's such a savage thing…
How many tabs do you have open right now? How many unread emails or drafts of your latest document? Join Columbia Professor and professional tab hoarder Annie Pfeifer to explore hoarding and clutterphobia as timely afflictions of the information age. The psychologists Randy Frost and Gail Steketee define hoarding through three characteristics: The failure to discard a…
