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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Today in famous dead people’s handwriting: Isaac Newton’s annotates himself. Africa is very large. Designing robots to fail. Hey, watch this bridge get taken apart. On the ramifications of turtle bones in Antarctica.
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The Rumpus Interview with Maile Meloy
“Short stories are hard because you have to start over every time, but they’re what I did first. I like living in a novel, as a writer and as a reader, but sometimes you can’t see your way out.”
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The Gray Lady Likes Ghosts
The New York Times reviews our good friend Matthew Zapruder’s most recent poetry collection, Come On All You Ghosts.
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Adjective Overdoses
“For some people, being able to use all these words is rather like being faced with a chocolate box with multiple layers; the temptation to overindulge is just too great.” Alexander McCall Smith makes the case for conciseness.
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FUNNY WOMEN #35: A Southern Mad Lib
Insert your own words in the spaces below to make a wacky story!
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On October 27 as part of the Selected Shorts series at Symphony Space, Award-winning actresses Lili Taylor (Six Feet Under) and Christine Ebersole (Grey Gardens) lead an illustrious cast performing modern spins on classic fairy tales taken from the new…
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Notable New York, This Week 10/19 – 10/24
This week in New York Judah Friedlander does Karate, Ian Frazier joins the FDG Reading Series, The Word Made Flesh celebrates in Brooklyn, James Franco takes a stab at writing, Rick Moody battles, Amy Sedaris is The Sound of Young…
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TDR Tattoo
A couple of weeks ago we told you about Two Dollar Radio’s offer of a free lifetime subscription to anyone who would tattoo the TDR logo onto their body. Well today Kevin Thomas, who also happens to be the creative…
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Blog vs. Web Magazine
So what’s the difference–if there even is any–between a “blog” and a “web magazine”? Farhad Manjoo tackles this question in the cleverly title “This Is Not a Blog Post.”
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He, the People
A legal scholar warns of presidential power-mongering and calls for a national Day of Deliberation.