2011
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“Oscars take a pass on people of color.”
“Setting aside the more obscure, technical categories, when it comes to the best picture award along with the major nominations for acting, writing and directing, there are, ahem, zero people of color in the Oscar race this year.” With everyone…
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This Isn’t an Onion Article
NYU Professor Joseph Weiler, editor of the European Journal of International Law‘s website, is being “sued for running a negative book review.” (via PW)
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Chats with Random Men #13: Kleber Returns
Singer Alina Simone chats with random men on her Facebook page — here she welcomes back an old “friend” in this midnight chat with Kleber:
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Art Edwards: The Last Book I Loved, Infinite Jest
I bought Infinite Jest in April of 2010 because we needed a book to press flowers. My wife and I were in Austin, Texas, and we were off to the park to find flowers for an art project she was doing.…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Today is another day, which is pretty cool you know? Flavorwire guides you through MOMA’s new digital font collection. Here are a bunch of pictures from a 1950s sci-fi movie about moon travel that are great and so you should…
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The Rumpus Interview with Justin Taylor
2012, Y2K, internet porn, the world has always been coming to an end. Justin Taylor’s The Gospel of Anarchy (Harper Perennial, February 8th) focuses on a disenfranchised college drop out in 1999 Florida taken in by a band of psuedo-religious…
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Rate of Loss
“For the second year in a row, the U.S. military has lost more troops to suicide than it has to combat in Iraq and Afghanistan.”
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R.I.P. Charlie Louvin
Charlie Louvin, the remaining member of the country music duo the Louvin Brothers has died today at the age of 83. While occasionally best remembered for the painfully sincere album cover for 1960s Satan is Real, the Louvin’s were both…
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Vladimir Nabokov, Butterfly Expert
Nabokov once wrote “Genius is an African who dreams up snow.” Now, about 40 years after he dreamed up an evolutionary history for a species of butterflies, gene sequencing has proved the author right.