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Fire In My Belly
For me, having been inculcated with pictures of a bloody, naked man nailed to a tree since I was five, any discussion of obscenity, homo-eroticism or sexual violence begins with…
CUP and DFW
Columbia University Press brings you “The Philosophy of David Foster Wallace: Context and Conversation,” which includes excerpts and interviews pertaining to DFW’s undergraduate philosophy thesis, which will soon be released…
Internet Facelifts
The New York Times takes a look at Nick Denton’s decision to redesign the sites of Gawker Media. A video highlighting the changes (and some very bad music) can be…
Magnetic Books
Claudia Gonson, of The Magnetic Fields fame, walks the NYRB through her life, book by book: “My Reading Life.” (via TheMillions)
Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
Browser wars, again? Chrome is gaining in popularity, Firefox is complaining about being manipulated by the big guys, and permanent best-kept-secret Opera reached 150 million users. Google is about to…
Get Off Your Ass and Blow Shit Up
The Avian Gospels is a strange, compelling parable about an authoritarian city-state, an underground resistance, and a plague of mysterious birds.
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Truthfully I’m still pretty distracted. Gerry Canavan has kindly brought us the image of the day. Dear anyone, please buy me a Swiss Army axe. Thanks. Here is some NASA…
The Gray Side of The Moon
I heard Bucky Sinister read this poem at the Quiet Lightning reading series and it was so beautiful I asked him if we could publish it here. – Stephen Elliott