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Dinaw Mengestu on Writers Block
Click here to listen to Dinaw Mengestu read a passage from How to Read the Air. Click here to read the Rumpus interview with Mengestu.
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The Dangers Of Making Art
“To be dangerous is to remind the world of what our humanity means to us, rather than allowing everyone to settle into complacency. To challenge us to dig deeper into reflecting on our lives, instead of just accepting what we’re…
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Let’s all take a moment & be grateful, ’cause none of us have been thrown in a labor camp on our wedding day for tweeting a joke. A joke! A tisket, a tasket, a web tizzy over Apple co-founder saying Android’s…
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“Charge, angry youth”
“A woman in China has been sentenced to a year in a labour camp” for a tweet. We encourage those of you who use Twitter to re-tweet her statement (“Charge, angry youth”) in protest.
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Rebecca Solnit’s Infinite City
Just to let all discriminating book-buyers know: Rebecca Solnit’s new gorgeously-illustrated and highly-collaborative book, Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas is out now at all independent bookstores.
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Donkey Blogger Released
Adnan Hajizada, one of two bloggers who were jailed for “hooliganism” after a supposed fight in a restaurant, but who were more likely being punished for a “satirical Internet video in which Hajizada holds a fake government press conference dressed…
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Not So Fast, Google
French Culture Minister Frédéric Mitterrand is very wary of the country’s deal to let Google “scan French-language out-of-print books.” (via PW)
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Let’s all just go live in a big domed underground city. Here is an article about fish spit (sort of). Kitschy vintage item of the day: the Magic Brain Calculator. Time lapse photography of buildings being built is a pretty…