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2011
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Hella takins today dudes. Take THAT Salman Rushdie. 2011 is the year of invisible clothing. (which is a pretty dumb year, you know?) Insect meat is the answer to all…
Why Are You a Prostitute?
This is a response for Bedelia, who commented profusely about sex work, house moms, and her experience as a hooker for ten years on an earlier piece I wrote…
RedState ♥s Donald (Not Really)
“Doofuses,” “goofballs,” “self-aware parasites,” and “political pornographers.” The folks over at RedState use some pretty fun words to describe Donald authors Stephen Elliott and Eric Martin (as well as the…
“Band Booking”
Jason Diamond over at Vol. 1 Brooklyn has kicked off a new series, Band Booking, where musicians talk books. The first installment features “composer, violinist, keyboardist and songwriter” Owen Pallett…
“Dear Marlon…”
“I’m praying that you’ll buy On the Road and make a movie of it…. I visualize the beautiful shots could be made with the camera on the front seat of…
FUNNY WOMEN #42: The Best-Selling Story of All Time
The five most popular words in best-selling books are (source: Time magazine): 1. man 2. diet 3. house 4. woman 5. sex/sexual
Where’s Your Hometown?
Michael Chabon ruminates on the concept of “hometown” while discussing his novel-in-progress, Telegraph Avenue.
“Office and Denunciation”
“I offer myself to be devoured by Spanish peasants…” A previously undiscovered draft of Federico Garcia Lorca’s “Office and Denunciation,” a poem in which Lorca draws a “portrait of the…
Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
The iPhone arrives on Verizon! But it might not make sense to get one right away… The Internet’s next big rumor is concerned with a round of impending MySpace layoffs. Are data-hogging…
An Essay Not to Miss
“The esteemed Steve Almond delivers the best take – and best-written essay – I’ve seen on the Giffords shooting.” David Sirota praises Steve Almond’s “Surely Some Revelation Is at Hand.”…