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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Let’s all just go live in a big domed underground city. Here is an article about fish spit (sort of). Kitschy vintage item of the day: the Magic Brain Calculator.…
The Blurb #20: Joy Is a Job
I, too, want to feel a buzz, but I have no illusions. It takes effort. Reading good books requires discipline.
Blogging: A Centuries-Old Tradition
“Montaigne raised questions rather than giving answers. He wrote about whatever caught his eye: war, psychology, animals, sex, magic, diplomacy, vanity, glory, violence, hermaphroditism, self-doubt. Most of all, he wrote…
Everyone Is Hunting for Identity
Over at Guernica, Sarah Layden interviews the incomparable Aimee Bender about her new novel The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, David Foster Wallace and time capsules. Peep it here.
Super Mamika
Some would say that just having grandchildren makes a woman a superhero. If I live to be so old, I only hope my grandchildren will be as spectacularly awesome as…
Why I Chose Jena Osman’s The Network for The Rumpus Poetry Book Club
Rumpus Poetry Editor Brian Spears on why he chose Jena Osman’s The Network as the fourth selection of The Rumpus Poetry Book Club.
Wordplay with Frey Fray
While it’s obviously a good read about an interesting and timely subject, it’d be a lie to say we aren’t linking to this piece partly because of its clever title:…
Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
A bug caused Facebook to forget that women are real people for a moment. Quantum physics, chaos theory, and bacteria might be powering the technology of the future. Another new way…