August 2012
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ALBUMS OF OUR LIVES: BETH ORTON’S CENTRAL RESERVATION
A few years ago, a friend was attempting to explain why he was divorcing his wife. He said they had grown apart. That they argued all the time.
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Roxane Gay Interview
“I’m a little tired of cynicism. It’s just so easy to be cynical—and there are plenty of reasons to be cynical, and I have my very cynical moments—but in terms of my writing and the stuff that I put out…
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HURRICANE (FINALLY) ISAAC
AUGUST 30, 2012 The New Orleans streets are a mess with shredded branches and other debris – roof tiles, broken signs, errant gutters – but the city, I think, so far, came through fine. People know how to handle hurricanes…
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Talks with Teachers #3: Imprisoned Education
Chaska Conrow, who taught at a charter school that operates inside San Francisco County jails, discusses the myths and realities of teaching behind bars.
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Knights of the BART Station
Over at the Bay Citizen, head Rumpus illustrator Jason Novak takes us to Oakland’s Rockridge BART station, where a group of local sword fighters — members of The Society for Creative Anachronism — meet to duel every Thursday. Check out Novak’s…
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Have Pen, Will Art-Blog
Well this is just excellent: over at The Nation, artist Steve Brodner live-blogged the Republican National Convention—through illustrations. A sneak preview of what you’ll find, after the jump:
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Dispatch From the Future by Leigh Stein
I don’t think I ever laughed with a poem. Sometimes I chuckle at a clever turn of phrase, or at a shared sentiment, or a little idiosyncrasy that I thought all my own, and though I laughed at that dirty…
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The Writerly Appetite
Did you know Jean-Paul Sartre was obsessed with halva? Or that Emily Dickinson and Virginia Woolf could have indulged a carb overload with one of their homemade loaves of bread? Over at The Hairpin, Jane Hu puts together a glossary…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Today I’m pretty hypnotized by this US wind map. Long story short, it’s pretty easy to manipulate people into doing the right thing. The Lowline is (still) coming. Illustrating Aesop through the ages. And a bit of inspiration: what’s it…
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The Week in Greed #12: Who Let the Dog Whistles Out?
The goal isn’t just to rile white voters up, but to make them feel that their own racist impulses are merely reasonable responses to a culture stacked against them.
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“I owed worse than money”
Chris Colin recounts the saga of an unpaid Craigslist I.O.U., which becomes an obsession that forces him to confront his own non-monetary debts. “I didn’t care about the money. I cared about the abuse of this rare bit of fellowship.…
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Inner Space
In his children’s book This is Cape Canaveral (1963), Miroslav Sasek wrote, “On the east coast of Florida, 190 miles north of Miami, you enter a land of giants, of science-fiction-turned-fact, among whose denizens are the Atlas, the Thor, the…