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2011
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More #OccupyWallStreet
Mother Jones has created an interactive map for the Occupy Wall Street protests. Also, the movement makes Noam Chomsky hopeful for democracy in the U.S. and has academic and activist…
Poetry Kung Fu or: Breaking Boards With Your Head is Dumb, Write Poems Instead
Part 1: The Student Bruce Lee wrote poetry and it is beautiful.
Sendak Unbarred
“‘I refuse to lie to children,’ says Sendak. ‘I refuse to cater to the bullshit of innocence.'” Maurice Sendak does not withhold his feelings in this recent interview with The…
Comics Journal Talks with Jesse Moynihan
“Of course that stuff isn’t strictly autobiographical. Some of it comes from daydreams, long showers, running, and the desire to write funny gags. A lot of times I will sit…
A. N. Devers and Bombal
“It is unclear to me whether the Chilean writer Mariá Luisa Bombal shot her lover, Eulogio Sanchez, or her husband, Eulogio Sanchez—the few biographical sources available to me are contradictory—but…
A Zinester’s Journey
Anne Elizabeth Moore’s travel memoir, Cambodian Grrrl, is a humourous, self-effacing tale of an American abroad.
Mena Reynolds: The Last Book I Loved, Making Toast
Making Toast by Roger Rosenblatt is a lovely memoir written by a prestigious author / journalist / columnist about how, following the death of his daughter, he and his wife…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Way to award a dead guy, Nobel Prize committee! Robot umbilical chords are sort of unfortunate. Eeeee! Cosmonaut return vessel graveyard! The time has come for earthscrapers. I am a…