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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Today’s tech links left me with some questions: Does the Internet need more benevolent editors or should the would-be experts pipe down and let the crowd speak for itself? Everyone’s wondering: Is Google buying Groupon? 8-ball says “most likely.” Who would pay…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
How am I supposed to concentrate when there might be aliens? Here is some art or something. No but seriously you guys, aliens. Everything else seems ungodly boring. A L I E N S
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Falling in Love with Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead
The novel has a progression and a movement forward, though not exactly a plot. Things change, things happen, people make choices, and by the end things are different.
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“The Sum of All Books Present in the Shared Human Consciousness”
Check out The New York Journal of Books where Joseph Mackin delivers a treatise on the book review. What is the purpose of the book review anyway? Do they serve to introduce the general public to another addition to “the…
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Salman Rushdie’s Big Think
“If Saul Bellow wants to write a novel set in Africa he feels free to do so, whereas sometimes if the reverse happens, if a third-world writer wishes to set a novel in Illinois, he might be asked what he…
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FUNNY WOMEN #39: Revenge Is Best Served Warmly
I often think about the five people I’d invite to a fantasy dinner party. They are: Jesus Christ, Rick Springfield, my late grandmother, my ex-boyfriend Steve, and a celebrity chef.
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Steaming Mug
So a decade ago, hack advertisers needed to make everything cyber-this and i-that. Fifty years ago, everyone was selling a Space-whatsit, and a hundred years ago it was all radium-whatever. Radium Razor Blades! (I’m serious.) But let’s say it’s 1848: now…
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Joe Owens: The Last Book I Loved, The Wilding
Benjamin Percy can probably kick my ass. At least his prose gives me no reason to believe otherwise. Equal parts grit, subtlety and a silver-tongued bravura, Percy’s style makes me kind of want to call him a prosaic assassin if only prosaic…
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Chats With Random Men #11: Amit
Singer Alina Simone chats with random men on her Facebook page — and occasionally fights with random men … meet Amit.