Edith Wharton to Tevi Gevinson - it's a roundup post

First be sure to check out Molly Danger over at Kickstarter - this sounds like a project totally worth supporting and spreading the word on.

Edith Wharton by Annie Liebovitz! (I love Vogue for doing this.) (via Bookshelves of Doom)

Outstanding interview with teen blogger Tavi Gevinson at BUST. This is a really interesting piece as aside from the pop culture status Gevinson has attained she is just a fascinating person. I'm happy to see it in BUST but I wish it was in Seventeen or Teen Vogue although I imagine Gevinson's fans will find her wherever she is. It's the girls who don't know about her already that I'd like to reach though; it would have been life altering for me to have known of someone like this when I was 15.

This Vanity Fair piece on Microsoft losing its mojo is fascinating and really needs to be read even by folks not interested in business. It's about how a group of people can lose track of what matters not just in a corporate setting but personally. Really amazing.

If you can get your hands on OUTSIDE this month (not online), there is a column on gear made in America that is both heartening and smart - nice to see the tide turning and for solid economic reasons. Also, the current issue of BRICK has a searing piece by Jaspreet Singh on the November 1984 government sanctioned genocide against Sikhs in India. You can read Part I of it here and Part 2 here.

I am writing about the discovery of a mountain pass in 1927 and thinking a lot about men and mountains. I wish I knew what George Mallory was thinking when he climbed Everest but I suspect it was much more prosaic then most people imagine. Tonight I write a review for Booklist and work on the piece about house building books but through it all I will be thinking about Mallory and everyone else who went into the cold looking to get closer to the sun.