Started the blog Brain Pickings, now renamed to The Marginalian, in 2006. Features writing on books, the arts, philosophy, culture, and other subjects.

I am an author (The Fault in Our Stars, The Anthropocene Reviewed, etc.), a YouTuber (Vlogbrothers, Crash Course, etc.), and a person who does not cast movies.

Nikki VanRy is a proud resident of Arizona, where she gets to indulge her love of tacos, desert storms, and tank tops. She also writes for the Tucson Festival of Books, loves anything sci-fi/fantasy/historical, drinks too much chai, and will spend all day in bed reading thankyouverymuch.

Writer, former environmental studies professor, anarchist, pagan, life-long learner