2009
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2009 Over and Out
These images come from Maria Rosa: Everyday Fun and Carnival Frolic with Children in Brazil by Vera Kelsey, illustrated by the Brazilian artist Candido Portinari. I’m working with a 1942 US edition, but I imagine there are many editions from…
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Morning Coffee
Don’t tell anyone, but today is the last day of the year. Other rad things you can make out of books. Can farming save Detroit? Sema Bekirovic takes some pretty impressive pictures. Romeo and Juliet as you misremember it. Why…
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FUNNY WOMEN #11: The Emily Post Guide to Beheadings
It happens in all our lives. We put down our golf clubs to peruse the mail that the butler has brought on a silver tray, when we discover an invitation to a beheading. Naturally, our minds turn to deeper thoughts:…
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Funny Women Around the Web, 12/30/09
Ann Friedman is one of the editors of my favorite feminist blog, feministing, where she writes the Weekly Feminist Reader (“I know what I’m looking forward to doing this holiday season? Putting on my finest party dress, lying down on the…
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Estonian Animation
Yesterday Will Schofield, editor of the oh-so-awesome A Journey Round My Skull, posted some amazing pictures from Estonian children’s books. Well Will has found an animated version of one of the books, and it is just as amazing… and by…
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Found in Translation
Open Letter Books has only been around for a year and has only published 16 titles, none of which have sold more than 3,000 copies. Yet the small publishing house has found its niche publishing “nothing but literature in translation,”…
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The Year’s Work in Lebowski Studies
“Where cult films go academics will follow.” The NYT ruminates on how The Big Lebowski spawned scholarship on dudedom.
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Gainsbourg in Gowanus via Beck
In celebration of the January release of IRM, Charlotte Gainsbourg’s latest album, which was produced by Beck, Gainsbourg will be performing two shows at The Bell House in Brooklyn (1/19, 1/20), tickets for which go on sale today at noon.…