2011
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Hooray for bio-luminescence! Way to go Dalton Trumbo. Hey look, the awesome Paleofuture now in tumblr form! Catalan edible jewelry. Important: fish hatcheries are speeding up fish evolution.
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Borrowing, Ruining
HTML Giant celebrates the marks we leave–and find–on borrowed things, namely library books. “I like the weird smell of library books, and the way the smell differs. I like seeing how people ruin what they borrow. I like knowing what…
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Best Music for Writing
At The Village Voice, Jami Attenburg reveals 2011’s top ten pieces of music to listen to while writing, “as supplied by the authors of recent books,” so they must be effective. The list features some of our friends, including Rumpus…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #115
CHECKERS ★★★★★ (2 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Checkers.
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The Last Book I Loved: Atlas of Remote Islands
Maps, at their best, are more than representations of the world. They are worlds unto themselves—endlessly explorable, enigmatic, complicated, and alive. I remember the first globe I owned as a kid. I liked to spin it on its axis, as…
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Aimee Bender on The Situation in American Writing
Aimee Bender responds to Full Stop’s Situation in American Writing survey. Bender discusses literary criticism’s transition to the Internet, the political tendencies of American writing, and whether she imagines a specific audience for her work: “No, not a definite audience.…
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Notable San Francisco: 12/19-12/25
This week in San Francisco-entertain yourself in prep for merry you-know-what. Monday 12/19: December’s Porchlight Reading Series is happening at Verdi Club.
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Books as Fetish Objects
Unpacking My Library introduces a new sub-genre to coffee table books: library porn.
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Notable New York, This Week 12/19-12/25
This week in New York, a reading at The Poetry Project, Digable Planets at Brooklyn Bowl, Page Meets Stage with Jeffrey McDaniel and Amber Tamblyn, The Soundtrack storytelling series, and Hanukkomedy at the 92YTribeca.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Here are the best thing that happened in the natural world in 2011 (spoiler alert: a sloth yawns). We are totally about to build the world’s second largest structure. Here is some 1920s and 30s Japanese graphic design for you.…