2011
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All Over Coffee #547
Kichijoji, TokyoClick image to enlarge: … All Over Coffee is published in the Sunday Datebook section of the San Francisco Chronicle, on SFGate.com, and in two book collections by City Lights Press, the second and newest book, Everything is its own…
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All of Us, Anchored in Place
“…isn’t it strange, I mean, this thing about being a human being breathing and thinking and sensing and dwelling always, always, in a place?” This essay in the Millions is all about place and home—how all aspects of living occurs…
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A New Sports Site in the Making
There’s a new alternative sports site in the making. The Classical is the brainchild of a bunch of writers and editors who write for the Nation, the Times, GQ, Vice, Pitchfork (and other notable publications), who are trying to raise…
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Notable New York, This Week 8/22-8/28
This week in New York Amy Waldman reads from The Submission; a book party for Jennifer Close’s Girls in White Dresses; CALYX poetry reading at Bluestockings; a night of prose at KGB Bar; Central Park Film Festival shows Shine a…
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Libya Roundup
You can follow the Guardian’s live coverage here. Al Jazeerah is reporting that fighting has broken out near Gaddafi’s compound in Tripoli, but so far, no sign of Gaddafi himself. Two of Gaddafi’s sons, however, have been captured.. The Secretary-General…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
The future is now #5086: French airport holograms! Google Street View is mapping the Amazon. Sad new aerodrome fans. Dogs totally know that you have cancer. As it turns out, early life was pretty much chilling out on the beach,…
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No End In Sight: Industrial Icons “Front Line Assembly” Continue Their Assault
I’m inside of a cavernous nightclub, flanked by a packed bar that’s humming with anticipatory commotion.
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The Rumpus Interview with Caitlin Horrocks
“I like to show my class a Top Chef episode where the contestants are supposed to make something interesting out of potatoes, like sweet potato ice cream. I try to talk about vampires that way: there’s nothing wrong with comfort…
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Getting Boys to Read
How can we interest boys in reading when the majority of YA bestsellers are targeted to girls, who are more into books about “mean girls, gossip girls, frenemies and vampires”? Sports journalist Robert Lipsyte, whose most recent books include a…
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Pandora for Books?
BookLamp.org could be called the cousin of Pandora. This new website allows you to type in the name of a favorite book or author and then finds books with similar “DNA” to help you find new books. BookLamp is a…
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Was Times New Roman Plagiarized?
Although I prefer Garamond, Times New Roman is the font of choice for the rest of the world. Did you know that this classic font has a shady past? Stanley Morison, a typography consultant for The Times, is credited as…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
Brooklyn’s story from the writers who have defined it. (via Mark Athitakis) Bookslut points to this article on neuroscience, or “how the cerebral cortex has become a 21st-century version of Warhol’s soup cans or Marilyn Monroes.” A reading of Oral…