2011
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
All roads lead to the philosophy wikipedia article. The NY Times wants us to think about Jellyfish. Ok! Men in high heeled shoes in art. Can we all agree that the entirely azure Moroccan city is pretty cool? Also some…
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SMALL POTATOES:
Lucky MountainSmall Potatoes by Paul Madonna Click here to read The Rumpus interview with Paul Madonna Read more Small Potatoes at angrylittlepotatoes.com …
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The Rumpus Review of My Heart Is An Idiot
Sitting down to watch My Heart Is An Idiot, the romantic documentary by FOUND Magazine founder Davy Rothbart and director David Meiklejohn, I expected a typical story of “boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy wins girl back…or loses her…
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BookCourt Profile
One of our favorite independent Brooklyn bookstores, BookCourt, is focused on keeping people interested in reading and buying physical, tangible books. Of course, no matter how well a bookstore is doing these days, it could always be doing better, so…
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“Notes From a Literary Apprenticeship”
Jhumpa Lahiri, author of Interpreter of Maladies and The Namesake, writes in the New Yorker about her path to becoming a writer. A first generation American whose parents were from India, Lahiri had to somehow reconcile those two drastically different…
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Welcoming Profanity
Profanity can be somewhat polarizing, but why not appreciate all the incidentally humorous and intensified moments that come from the foul parts of language? This essay is an ode to a certain four-letter word and praises the use of the…
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French Faux Pas
A twenty year-old French law that sought to keep the news media from promoting commercial enterprises is being newly reinforced. This means that using “Facebook” and “Twitter” on air is strictly forbidden. This seems like a good way to stave…
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The Optimism of Jane Goodall
Jane Goodall speaks with Bill Moyers about the work she has done, not just with chimpanzees, but with creating a better world for our children and grandchildren to live in.
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Will the next big thing in ecommerce be online pawn shops? A preview of Apple’s iOS 5 operating system for iPhone/iPad. Who woulda thunk? Kindles now make up nearly 10% of Amazon’s business, and that number’s still growing. Nintendo unveils…
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FUNNY WOMEN #54: Thomas Hardy Isn’t Jane Austen; Get Over It
They hated the ending. I knew they would. They always hate the ending. “They” means my university students. “The ending” means the last chapters of Thomas Hardy’s novel Far From the Madding Crowd (1874).