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2010
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
This artist, Ben Wilson, paints great “miniature pictures on pieces of discarded chewing gum.” “The Earliest War Photography From Afghanistan” taken during the late 1800s. These pop-up books are totally…
Digesting an Elephant–The Rumpus Book Club Reviews The Instructions
What if Infinite Jest and Phillip Roth had a love child, a very angry love child… Large enough to squash a Pekingese, Adam Levin’s The Instructions is staggeringly well-thought-out, bejeweled…
Strange Powers
It has been eleven years since The Magnetic Fields released the three-album set 69 Love Songs—with its funny-sad, sarcastic, satirical songs about, well, love songs.
Protecting the “Least Among Us”
“I asked Wolfgang how long addicts typically had to wait for admission to his clinic. He didn’t understand my question, so I asked again. As I was about to ask…
Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Should criticizing your employer on facebook be protected as free speech? You can now use your phone as a YouTube remote… Or as an STD test. Maybe this’ll force everyone to actually make…
Dickens in Danger
The Victoria and Albert Museum in London is hard at work trying to raise £25,000 in order “to properly conserve the low-grade blue writing paper Dickens used to write A…
The Digital Public Library of America?
Robert Darnton, historian and the director of the Harvard University Library, has been writing recently about digitized books. Last December, for instance, he suggested the creation of a national digital…
Trigger-Happy SoCal
Dear Southern California, Let’s take it down a notch or two, shall we? I mean, a mysterious missile launch? Come on now. PS-Even the Pentagon “has no idea who launched…
“My son finally hit this jerk in the face.”
As a single mother living in a majority-Republican town, Alana Noel Voth is determined to raise an open-minded son against all odds. She talks to her son frankly about sex…