December 2011
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The Last Book I Loved: The Handmaid’s Tale
My boyfriend sometimes says things like, “Back in high school, I was a theater geek.” What he means is that he attended acting camps during all his summer vacations, and he played juicy supporting roles like Horatio and Don Pedro…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Hooray for bio-luminescence! (part 2) Atlas Obscura has some hand info on the deaths of the last week. Here is your Christmas spirit for the day. Oh my gosh you guys, it’s time for Big Picture’s photo wrap-up! “I would…
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The Unblinking Eye
At The Awl, Blake Butler reflects on attachment to the Internet world (and the machines with which we enter) as well as the meaning of obsession. “It seems too late for any of this to be stopped. Even making aimed…
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Empowerment, Sugar Style
Rumpus contributor Anna March gives Sugar some love over at StyleSubstanceSoul. In the third of her regular column focusing on “sexist products and media portrayals of women, counterbalanced by those offering positive messages,” March articulates the empowering nature of Dear…
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Nasty Ancient Graffiti
“Good luck on your resurrection.” I09 has compiled ten pieces of ancient graffiti translated into modern terms. (Via Bookslut)
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On the “Elf Slaves of Online Shipping”
“It’s worth considering how the hell those goods get to you, so fast, and for free, when the company you bought them from is posting profits in the millions, or even, in the case of Amazon, billions.” At Mother Jones,…
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FUNNY WOMEN #70: Top Vaginal Scents for the Holiday Season
Okay, ladies, you’ve read our tips on pleasing your man in the bedroom, but over the years many of our faithful readers have written in with the same concern:
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Toteninsel in English
New in English, Gerhard Meier’s 1979 Isle of the Dead recalls W.G. Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn as two friends traverse their town, discussing nature and death in elegant prose.
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The Last Book I Loved: Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage
I read Alice Munro’s books in benders. It usually takes me less than two days to finish one of her collections, and while reading it, I make and break promises to myself—to stop after this story, to take a shower,…