2011
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New School
Wired’s got an article on technologically-informed education—Khan Academy, an educational website in which, “Students, or anyone interested enough to surf by, can watch some 2,400 videos in which the site’s founder, Salman Khan, chattily discusses principles of math, science, and…
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Animals in Midlife Crises
ANIMALS IN MIDLIFE CRISES: Lioness Another fantastic Rumpus Comic from Lincoln Michel and John Dermot Woods.
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Dyer’s “Reading Life”
If you haven’t heard by now, we are at the precipice of Geoff Dyer’s latest venture in the New York Times, a weekly column for the Book Review called, “Reading Life.” Thus we will all be in touch with his…
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The Eyes of Ginger Pritt
The first novel from poet Rebecca Wolff, The Beginners is a coming-of-age tale told in riveting prose.
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The Last Book I Loved: Museum of the Weird
When we were all eight, the girls in my grade decided we had secret worlds. One world belonged to me and my best friend Chloe, and the other world belonged to every other eight-year old girl; and the clash between…
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Writing Frenzies and their Social Effects
Maud Newton has some relatable writing pains that she’s been ruminating on. It can take forced isolation and sometimes jail time to produce tangible, significant results. This is the kind of isolation that can make the public realm difficult and…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Scientists are probably just hoarding all the time travel for themselves. Visualizing a life. There is totally (probably) water on Mars, hella (probable) water. Warning: human jell-o is coming. The one bright spot of the space shuttle program ending is…
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Tragedy. Call. Compassion. Response.
Every day, terrible things happen in the world. Every damn day too many people die or suffer for reasons that defy comprehension.
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“Would I Had Phrases That Are Not Known”
Disillusioned by the task of writing truly original? John Barths writes on the difficult task to write something new and distinctly untold, which is apparently one that is perpetually and historically daunting. “Originality, after all, includes not only saying something…
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Godard’s Breathless
You can watch the entirety of Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless here and experience early nouvelle vague in all of its glory: