Maria Popova is a reader and a writer, and writes about what she reads onBrain Pickings(brainpickings.org), which is included in the Library of Congress archive of culturally valuable materials.Shehas previously written forWiredUK,The Atlantic,Nieman Journalism Lab, The New York Times,andSmithsonian Magazine,among others, and is an MIT Fellow. She is on Twitter as @brainpicker.