2011
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Back on the Shelf
E-readers change how some people read, what they carry on planes, what they keep on bedside tables. And now many people are keeping just about everything on bookshelves, except, well, books. Art, collectibles, and digital picture frames abound, giving bookcases…
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“Literary Stature”
A very cool graphic from 1906 showing the “comparative popularity of British novelists at the end of the 19th century.” (via FlowingData)
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The Icy Hand of Love
In Double Shadow, suffering puts its hypothermic hand on the backs of all living creatures. In that sense, it might help to think of it as a spiritual book, a lyric struggle of an individual in the face of mortal…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Self-promotion alert day 7: even though we’ve reached our stated goal, we are still a few dollars away from finishing recording our second album. maybe you would like to help? Are you guys excited for the biggest full moon? It…
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
Apple’s newest tool for convincing people to buy an iPhone? Shame. Helping blind people navigate their environment is the newest awesome Kinect hack. The porn industry might soon have its own ICANN-approved domain. The New York Times officially announced its…
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Kobayashi Maru
Stirring but brief portrait of the 50 Japanese nuclear plant workers crawling in the darkness, exposing themselves to radiation, in desperate attempt to stave of nuclear meltdown.
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The Times’ Paywall
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr., publisher of The New York Times, has announced the paper’s new, somewhat convoluted, digital subscriptions plan. Not surprisingly a workaround to the paywall has already been created.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Noelle Kocot
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Noelle Kocot about her collection The Bigger World.
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Literary Knuckleballer
Baseball’s spring training—really winter training—seems pretty superfluous these days. Most players employ personal training staffs, stay in top shape year-round, and hone their skills relentlessly with the aid of the most advanced technologies available. Yet still they arrive at camp…
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A Future for Modern Times?
It’s official, landmark San Francisco bookstore Modern Times is closing its doors… but there may be hope for a new beginning.
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Nicholas Rombes’s Art Film Roundup #5
Not usually a fan of these mash-ups, but this one—the great museum sequence from Brian De Palma’s Dressed to Kill (1980) set to Brian Eno’s song “Third Uncle”—works just fine. Oh Angie! (The music kicks in at around 40 seconds.):