June 2010
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Spill Links
About time: “Feds open criminal probe of Gulf oil spill.” Director James Cameron, “considered an expert on underwater filming and remote vehicle technologies,” met with scientists and officials from federal agencies “for a brainstorming session on stopping the massive oil…
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Andrei Voznesensky
“Mr. Voznesensky and poets like Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Bella Akhmadulina and Robert Rozhdestvensky burst onto the stage in the cultural ‘thaw’ that followed Stalin’s death in 1953 and rose to extraordinary stardom in the 1960s, filling whole stadiums for poetry readings…
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SEX BOOK THROWDOWN #2: Porn Takes It on the Chin
Today’s book battle pits Andrea Dworkin’s Pornography: Men Possessing Women against Nadine Strossen’s Defending Pornography:
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“Quietly and with confidence.”
“As if to say it’s risky, unknowable business, this living we do. As if to say all the fragile creatures of Boggs’s world—parents, children, husbands, and wives—dodge what dangers they can to survive in the midst of their aching loneliness.…
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WTF Marc Maron
“It was pretty impulsive. I’d been fired again at Air America. My partner Brendan who was my producer for years on radio and on the internet, tv, we’d just lost our jobs but we still had our passcards, so we…
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“But a quarterly only comes out… well, you know.”
Lorin Stein, the new editor of The Paris Review, announces the launch of The Paris Review Daily, the quarterly’s new blog.
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Good News Out of NOLA
“The lack of secure bicycle parking was the motivation for Where Ya’ Rack?, a new program that aims to increase the number of racks around the city through sponsorships and donations, and ultimately to encourage more biking in the community.”…
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International 826
Very happy indeed about this: the Guardian is reporting that an “826 London” is in the works. The project founders have a blog here, and the first planning meeting was just a few weeks ago: Among the themes being considered…
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Mattaponi Queen
In this prize-winning collection of linked stories, outcasts and fuckups “dodge what dangers they can to survive in the midst of their aching loneliness.”
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Notable New York, This Week 6/1 – 6/6
This week in New York Bill Gates talks with his dad, the Joan Rivers documentary screens, Christopher Hitchens talks about his new memoir, Isabella Rossellini talks to Leonard Lopate, KGB Bar holds a Fiction/Poetry slam, and Crispin Glover gives a…