2011
-
FUNNY WOMEN #66: A Day in the Top 40
Ever wondered what your day would look like if you lived in the Top 40? Wonder no longer. (Bonus points if you can sing parts of it. Our sympathy if you can sing all of it.):
-
Karen Russell Interview
“In your own life, you’re pretty powerless. And then there’s this alternate zone where there’s an external enemy you can fight. It would be easy if there were just a giant alligator Ava and her brother and sister could wrestle,…
-
Social Network Library
A new social networking site allows you to share snippets from longer pieces (so long as the source is electronic). With the help of a bookmarklet installed in your browser, text-sharing can be completed at the click of a button.…
-
On Big-Idea Books
At the Atlantic, Marshall Poe discusses his attempt to write a “big-idea book” about Wikipedia, and how he ended up with a “book of ideas” instead. “Years of academic research taught me two things. First, reality is as complicated as…
-
An Oakland General Strike Roundup
So, here’s something amazing. Tomorrow, November 2nd, Occupy Oakland is organizing the first general strike in America since 1946. Can we just stop and sit with that for a moment?
-
“What drew the Royalist anti-Semite to the Jewess in funny clothes?”
“Now a pair of books—Barbara Will’s Unlikely Collaboration: Gertrude Stein, Bernard Faÿ, and the Vichy Dilemma (Columbia University Press, 2011) and Antoine Compagnon’s Le Cas Bernard Faÿ: Du Collège de France à l’indignité nationale (Gallimard, 2009)—have revisited the relationship of…
-
The Middle
In Dagoberto Gilb’s new collection of short stories, Before the End, After the Beginning, we see people in transitional phases―neither flying nor drowing, but floating.
-
Feminist Blogging
“Back in the seventies, feminists touted the slogan ‘the personal is political,’ arguing that women had been trained to dismiss their own struggles as personal matters with no greater meaning. If women could share stories, they would find patterns. They…
-
THE LONELY VOICE #13: Walser on Mission Street
I confess I like reading stories about people who are more depressed than I am. Other people’s misery has a way of lifting the soul a little. Happy stories? They’re even duller than happy families.
-
#OWS Roundup
NYPD reportedly telling drunks to “take it to Zuccotti.” Some banks are renouncing their plan to charge debit cards. Winter is coming… and also #OccupyWallStreet has “custom made bicycle generators that charge batteries.” Not only did the protesters’ permit application…
-
The Ministry of Stories
“Hornby said: ‘The Ministry of Stories has had a happy, healthy and exciting first year, and there has been overwhelming interest from children, parents, schools and volunteers. We want to establish ourselves even more firmly in the community, involve even…