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Treatise on Elegant Publishing
Wakefield Press launches this month with two titles from its Handbooks series (“the how-to manual reimagined: guidebooks on a variety of satirical, parodic, and quixotic subjects”): Treatise on Elegant Living and The Young Girl’s Handbook of Good Manners for Use…
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“Amusements of an Historical & Macabre Nature”
“Adele Griffin & Lisa Brown accept with Pleasure your very Kind & Gracious presence on our Site. Please enjoy the following Amusements of an Historical & Macabre nature. Refreshments will be served.” There are book websites and then there are…
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Damned If You Do, Panned If You Don’t?
In light of the recent Orange Prize short list, Jojo Moyes ruminates on the split themes of modern women’s fiction. Somewhat dark, serious subject matter such as Barbara Kingsolver’s The Poisonwood Bible seems to dominate the field of formal literary…
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Kyle Kinane’s I’m Dead and It’s All My Fault #25
So I figured why pay for a pure breed when there’s a ton of rescue pit bulls out there already, you know? Just gotta make sure to wrestle with him on a regular basis to display dominance. And always, always…
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Notable New York, This Week 3/22 – 3/28
This week in New York a tribute to George Carlin, James Wood reads a book he’s never read before, Shya Scanlon gets other people to read his poems, NYC Twestival 2010, Huggabroomstik, Jeff Lewis and others cover songs by Major…
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Morning Coffee
A visual history of tourism ads. The Ghost Orchid has risen from the dead. And as long as we’re on the subject: the Pompeii fast food establishment Thermopolium is set to reopen. Free public light for all! (woo!) I would…
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FUNNY WOMEN #19: Anaïs Nin’s Hot Cross Buns
INGREDIENTS: A 200-year-old stone farmhouse in which every room is painted a different color, and the maid opens the shutters at dawn.
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Health Care Reform Roundup
Update: The White House has reached a deal with Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI) for his vote on the bill. Rep. Stupak says “We’re well past 216,” the number of votes needed for passage. The debate over this round of health…
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“The pulp of 2010”
Jonah Lehrer laments a big problem with the social web: “The one shared feature that I’m most interested in is also a little disturbing: the tendency of the social software to quantify our social life. Facebook doesn’t just let us…
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On Graduate School in the Humanities
“(W)e must think of graduate school as more like choosing to go to New York to become a painter or deciding to travel to Hollywood to become an actor. Those arts-based careers have always married hope and desperation into a…