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2011
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Here. Here are some pictures of birds flying. Here are some old Dutch maps. Here are some new developments on wrong assumptions about Mars. Here are some practice babies.
The Rumpus Book Club Interviews Andrew Foster Altschul
The Rumpus Book Club talks with Andrew Foster Altschul about Deus Ex Machina, Reality TV, the loss of truth, and what it’s like to visit a porn set in the name…
USAF and Medusa
The only problem with naming your new weapons system “Gorgon Stare” as the Air Force has done: Medusa’s lapidogenic vision was actually used against her. In fact, it was classic asymmetrical warfare: the…
“Dear Good Ole Boys of the Literary South”
“You try to make people cry — in workshops and at parties. […] But just to make sure no one thinks you’re really soft, you kill off as many dogs…
The Seasons Come, The Seasons Go
Works for children by the Czech artist Josef Lada (1887 – 1957):
Junk and the American Dialect Society
Ben Zimmer makes a case for “junk” to be the word of 2010. (via TheBookBench)
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
“No less an authority than William Burroughs has called Confessions ‘the first, and still the best, book about drug addiction… No other author since has given such a completely analytical…
Wallace-L and the Howling Fantods
David Foster Wallace’s “secret life as a philosopher” and the story of how Fate, Time, and Language, his honors theses turned postmortem book, came to be published.
Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
Cell phones are increasingly cropping up in prisons, giving inmates the resources to organize strikes and play FarmVille. Travel websites Expedia and Orbitz are creating controversy by dropping American Airlines…