2011
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The Hokum of Her Clothes
[O]ne of Laux’s strengths is her willingness to break through those poetic walls so many of us construct. She seems to want no distance between herself and her reader.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Everyone loves owls right? Austrian “conceptual devices.” (via Aqua Velvet.) Airplanes-taking-off-photo porn. Michigan Central Station in ruin 360. (via Gerry Canavan.) Bears vs Lions! (Prehistoric shit is GOING DOWN.)
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Super Hot Prof on Student Word Sex: Jane Roper
Talk me through the class in which we met. Anything you can remember that doesn’t involve how poorly I dressed.
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
An interview with Apple’s first CEO (no, it wasn’t Steve Jobs). The NY Times replaces its twitter cyborg with a person. Google cools their latest data center entirely with ocean water. A crazy new hybrid supercomputer.
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Book Covers, Gender-Switching
German artist, Daniela Comani, changes the gender on the covers of classic literary works in her current exhibition in an L.A. gallery. Thus The Brothers Karamazov becomes The Sisters Karamazov, and Mrs. Dalloway becomes Mr. Dalloway, etc. The utility of…
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Undergrads Beware
An article in the Atlantic discusses the Washington Post’s graph that charts undergraduate degrees and their expected income levels. The Post’s graph seems pretty deterministic (or maybe it just reflects how trendy it is to plot income level against groups…
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Eugenides Teaser
Jeffrey Eugenides, who has never written a novel that wasn’t well-received, has a new title called The Marriage Plot coming out in October, eight years since everybody first loved Middlesex. October may seem like forever away, but fortunately The Millions…
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VOW’s Forthcoming Title
Voices of Witness, the nonprofit bookseries imprint of McSweeney’s has a new book coming out in July but you can pre-order it now! Patriot Acts: Narrratives of Post-9/11 Injustice compiles the narratives from those afflicted by the slew of injustices…
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Where I Write #9: A Cabin on the Lakefront
I stopped counting when I reached eighteen moves. That was a few moves ago. I am very good at packing my life into boxes.
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Lin’s New Weekly Venture
Drug-Related Photoshop Art is Tao Lin’s new weekly column in Vice. As per Lin-style poetry, it involves contemporary cultural references interspersed with notable, historical artists. That being said, get ready for weekly laughter!