2011
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Litquake A Week Away
San Francisco’s Litquake 2011 runs Oct. 7-15. The nine-day annual literary festival will feature 850 Authors and 150 Events. This year’s Litquake will include conversations with Young Ireland; Nordic Noir; Mexican Feminism; Art of Writing panels; Iranian Women; Religious Renegades;…
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Fingers Through Sweat-Curled Hair
Biddinger’s repeated returns to haptic perception as a legitimized approach to the divine, or a sense of peace or benediction, amounts to an aesthetic necessity, alongside the necessity of putting iconicity and holy writ in relationship with narrative, reality, and…
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Albums of Our Lives: Steve Martin’s Let’s Get Small
“Well, excuuuuuuuuuse me!” my mother says from the kitchen when we complain about baked chicken again. “Well excuuuuuuuuuuuse me!” grumbles my father when we change the channel from the Auburn game to Elvira’s Movie Macabre.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
This has been a morbid week: the last minutes of famous people’s lives. On Fridays, sometimes you just want to watch Indonesian wildlife. The temple of muses (classy guys, way classy). Here is an atlas of Saturn’s moon. HOLY SHIT…
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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #86: Tiny Revolutions
Real change happens on the level of the gesture.
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Biblical Narratives Revisited
“Philip Esler’s book seeks to probe the mindset of ancient Israelite readers, to uncover their cultural presuppositions and to reveal the patriarchal, patrilocal and patrilinear structures in which their narratives make sense.” Esler’s Sex, Wives, and Warriors: Reading Biblical Narrative…
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Piranhas Are Not That Into Us
Piranhas have gotten a bad reputation, and the media was all over the little stunt they just pulled. But that was more a display of affection than “attack,” according to this article, which provides some much-needed perspective on the risk…
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Coelho On Internet Sharing
“Mr. Coelho continues to give his work away free by linking to Web sites that have posted his books, asking only that if readers like the book, they buy a copy, “so we can tell to the industry that sharing…
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Independent Bookstore Campaign
The “40K in 40 days” campaign is raising money to open La Casa Azul Bookstore in East Harlem. Contribute before October 24th, and every dollar invested will be matched by a donor. “La Casa Azul Bookstore will sell new &…
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“Men of the Stacks”
Male librarians are seeking to “overthrow the cliché of the bespectacled, permanently shushing female” librarian by publishing a Calendar Girls-style calendar titled “Men of the Stacks.” Featuring twelves dudes, some partial nudity and intriguing books placements, this will surely be…
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Like It or Not
How does a non-native English speaker figure out the proper usage and placement of “like”? Is the “like tic” nothing more than a meaningless flaw? “Had the non-native inquirer delved further, he would have found “like” analyzed as communicating something…