December 2011
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War Games
“It’s war. They don’t give a freakin’ you-know-what about you. They will kill you. They’re out there to kill you. So I’m ‘a kill them.
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Grossman’s Magnum Opus
In his latest novel, To the End of the Land, Israeli novelist David Grossman encapsulates the magical thinking of a country that could easily not exist.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Is a giant, cloaked spaceship orbiting around Mercury? (no.) I’m sorry to link to two baby animals in one week, but look at this dang Echidna! The anomalocaris sees all! Bookbindings! Sometimes big city plumbing turns into massive archeological finds.
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“The Situation in American Writing”
“The Situation in American Writing” is a questionnaire (based on The Partisan Review‘s in 1939) that Full Stop has sent out to dozens of authors: “These questions are provocative because, at heart, they are deeply earnest. A number of questions…
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The Love Does Not Stop…
“Each of the Popper men is to a large degree confounded by love. The women they desire, invariably plucky and self-possessed, have to work to stave off being swallowed whole by their men. “Love and Shame and Love’’ offers no…
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An Open Love Letter to Aliaa Magda Elmahdy
The New York Times recently ran an article about an Egyptian blogger named Aliaa Magda Elmahdy who posted a naked photo of herself on her blog, to the distress and disgust of her fellow Egyptians (liberals and conservatives alike).
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Derek Boogaard
The New York Times has published a fascinating (and heartbreaking) three-part examination of the life and death of professional hockey player/enforcer Derek Boogaard. From childhood dreams to devastating addiction and brain damage, reporter John Branch’s bloody but beautiful profile of…
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Aural Fixations, The Rumpus Mixtape #2: Chicago
Chicago. Sometimes it gets overlooked as a great city as we tend to focus our energies on considering the coasts and leave the interior as a great blur in our minds.
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You Weren’t Born By Yourself
In Touch, Cole once again breaks into new territories of form, subject, and voice, channeling pleasure and pain into a collection of poems that triumphs in the face of their inseparability.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Here’s your infographic of the week: every death on every British road from 1999-2010. Oh hey, welcome home bumblebee. The plus side of global warming is that soon we can clone a wooly mammoth. Update: but probably not really. Oh…