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A Running Record of Findings from the Internet / September 3, 2026

Fifteen Richard Yates Letters, From a Boy of Thirteen to a Dying Man

The earliest was written in January 1939, when Yates was thirteen and telling a friend about the band they were forming. The last go to his youngest daughter, Gina, and in between are the separation, the alimony cheques, the drinking and the Hollywood work that never came off.

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By Nathan Dunne ยท The Paris Review Daily

Richard Yates
Richard Yates
Design

  1. A 1938 Sydney Apartment, Put Back Into One Piece

    Yellowtrace·Sep 3

  2. Rick Tegelaar Starts With the Material, Not the Sketch

    Design Milk·Sep 3

  3. A Bernal Heights House Built Around a Sunken Courtyard

    A Bernal Heights House Built Around a Sunken Courtyard

    Yatzer·Sep 3

  4. Light Wells Cut Into a Victorian That Had Gone Dark

    The Design Files·Sep 2

Arts & Culture
  1. George Washington Carver Ground His Own Pigments From Alabama Clay

    George Washington Carver Ground His Own Pigments From Alabama Clay

    Hyperallergic·Sep 2

  2. Seventy-Five Thousand Paper Kites, Hung in One Room

    Colossal·Sep 3

  3. Five Hundred Artisans on an Island in the Venetian Lagoon

    Whitewall·Sep 2

  4. Marigold Santos Turns the Aswang Into a Figure of Self-Determination

    Hi-Fructose·Sep 1

Sound

  1. Erykah Badu and The Alchemist, Sixteen Years After the Last Record

    Crack Magazine·Sep 3

  2. Cassandra Wilson, Who Rebuilt the Jazz Standard, Has Died at 70

    Cassandra Wilson, Who Rebuilt the Jazz Standard, Has Died at 70

    Stereogum·Sep 2

  3. Brian Wilson Produced It in 1972, and It Is Still Hard to Hear

    Aquarium Drunkard·Sep 2

  4. Orcas, the Taos Hum, and a Month Without Power

    Bandcamp Daily·Sep 2

Collecting

  1. The Corgi Batmobile With Red Wheels Was a Factory Error

    Toy Tales·Sep 2

  2. A Corinthian Capital, Palestinian Tatreez, and a Chief's Chair

    A Corinthian Capital, Palestinian Tatreez, and a Chief's Chair

    Dwell·Sep 3

  3. VHILS Carves Into Doors and Billboards Pulled From Demolition

    Hypebeast·Sep 2

  4. Who Gets to Rewrite the History of a Games Studio

    Insert Credit·Aug 31

Document

  1. Greek Bards Could Hold Thirty Thousand Lines in Memory

    Engelsberg Ideas·Sep 2

  2. Henry VIII's Fortress Was Hiding in a Victorian Wall

    Smithsonian Magazine·Sep 1

  3. Bloomers, Wide-Mesh Stockings, and the Girdle Dior Required

    Bloomers, Wide-Mesh Stockings, and the Girdle Dior Required

    JSTOR Daily·Sep 2

  4. Falling for Lord Peter Wimsey at Seventy-Three

    The American Scholar·Sep 2

Film

  1. Sugimoto Has Been Shooting the Same Series for Fifty-One Years

    Aperture·Sep 1

  2. Sarah Maldoror Made Forty-Six Films, and Almost None Are Restored

    Little White Lies·Sep 3

  3. Nineteen Restorations at Venice, From Lubitsch to Cassavetes

    Criterion·Aug 31

  4. Anja Breien's Wives Trilogy Took Twenty-One Years

    Anja Breien's Wives Trilogy Took Twenty-One Years

    Metrograph·Sep 1

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