2011
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
Here’s some nice internet doomsdayism for your Monday: people only see things they like online. Oh, and traditional journalism is still dying because of the internet. Let’s just call today “internet hoax day”: the voice of the Syrian rebellion is fake,…
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A Note to My Fellow White Males
Dear Dudes: As a fellow white male, I understand how tough it is to get oneself noticed above the din of all the other white male voices out there.
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Notable New York, This Week 6/13-6/19
This week in New York a book party for late Chilean author Roberto Bolaño at Galapagos Art Space; and another book party for Go the F**k to Sleep at the New York Public Library; Elizabeth Nunez and Tiphanie Yanique in…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Things I would do if I was very rich: buy a flying yacht, eat all my meals under water. My favorite part of this is that spacesuits are currently being held in a town called “Suitland”. Caribbean Nature (it has…
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All Over Coffee #538
Click 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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Where I Write #11: A Table Meant For Dining
There is a corkboard here. On it, there is a paper doll of L., a friend from my grad school days. The doll features a pixie haircut, a polka-dot blouse, a pair of men’s pants.
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Sunday Afternoon Links
Do you have what it takes to join “The World’s Most Exclusive Website“? Can you spot the change? “I think of my portraits as a cultural intervention – “before” pictures lovingly drawn and painted, meditative descriptions of specific bodies that…
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Facebook’s Influence on Writing
“Facebook presents far more danger than the cultivation of lowercase first-person ‘i’s and emoticons :). The real threat posed by Facebook is not that it ruins writers’ ability to punctuate or encourages them to replace words with pictures. The problem…
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How Much is Your Body Worth?
“I weigh just a little under two hundred pounds, have brown hair, blue eyes, and a full set of teeth. As far as I know, my thyroid gland pumps the right hormones into the twelve pints of blood that circulate…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
Here’s more book stuff for all you book nerds. Enjoy! This is what Jeffrey Eugenides is reading this summer. “People were creating “art” in an attempt to save lives. That’s beautiful. It’s unlikely that experimental writing is going to make…
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The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement
Sunday’s the day to catch up with Rumpus Books. Click “more,” take a peek, and find something good to read.