2009
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Letter from Paris, Part 9: Now, Here Was Paris
We pass a well, a perfectly round mouth in the stone where all this blue water spills out.
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The Rumpus Interview with Zak Smith
Nobody ever asks me, “Why make paintings?” Is wanting to spend your time around attractive women who like to have sex much more difficult a desire for journalists to understand than wanting to dip wisps of horsehair into a wet…
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Obama Gets Advice from America’s Kids
Hot off the presses is a new book by kids titled Thanks and Have Fun Running the Country. Students of non-profit writing center 826 Valencia have
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Rapture House
Rapture House has created a variety of avant garde projects, outre in both subject matter and execution. Consisting in part of the husband and wife team of Polly Frost and Ray Sawhill.
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New Yorker Fiction 2008
The Millions breaks down a year’s worth of New Yorker short stories, including brief synopses and a list of favorites.
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Doughnuts & the Death of Journalism
What do doughnuts and the internet’s erosion of journalism have in common?
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Aurobora Press Superlink
This week I wrote about Aurobora Press for the San Francisco Bay Guardian. For the past fifteen years,
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Jonathan Baumbach Superlink
Writing (a novel, this post, anything) is “a bit like love.” Few are in it for the money or self-esteem; you pursue it because you can’t not and because at some point, it feels good and right and like one…
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The Shorty Q&A With Robin Maxwell
Female pirates, Leonardo DaVinci’s mother and cross-dressing, the sex lives of kings. Robin Maxwell writes about the parts of history that don’t air on PBS specials.
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Morning Coffee
The best morning of your life, every weekday at 6a.m. NPR on the books that James “Sawyer” Ford reads and the literature of Lost. The blog of unnecessary quotation marks. Bulgaria v. Czech Republic, a hoax sculpture sparks a diplomatic…
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The Rumpus Interview with Yiyun Li
I first interviewed Yiyun Li in 2005 when she won the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, among many other awards, for her debut collection, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers. Her first novel, The Vagrants, is forthcoming in February 2009.…
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Home Away from Home for the Stone-Cold Heel Fetishist
Designers and high heel enthusiasts INSA and Ben Rousseau spent three weeks carving a room at the legendary Ice Hotel in Sweden. (via Juxtapoz)