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Just Because You’re Paranoid…
David Aaronnovitch’s survey of global conspiracy theories ably debunks chestnuts old and new, but avoids closer analysis of what inspires them in the first place.
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Is Music Less Sacred?
“But for all the joys of such wizardry, I’ve been experiencing a creeping sense of dread recently when it comes to iTunes, a dark hunch that technology has impoverished the actual experience of listening to music.” Rumpus contributor Steve Almond…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #29
THE DIAPHRAGM OF ANNE FRANK ★★★★★ (4 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing The Diaphragm of Anne Frank.
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Baseball Has-Beens Looking to Become Be-Agains
The Christian Science Monitor just printed a great story by Jordan Heller that opened my eyes to a whole world I didn’t even know existed: baseball players who have dropped out of the major leagues for one reason or another,…
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War Without Tears
From Peter Parley’s Annual for 1865: “peaceful combat, without the horrors of actual warfare.” It’s…
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Bertha, The Child-Flower
Raymond Roussel clipped “Bertha, The Child-Flower” from the final manuscript of his masterpiece Locus Solus (1914), but here she blooms again.
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Kyle Kinane’s I’m Dead and It’s All My Fault #26
Shit, I put my cyanide pill in the same pocket as my Mentos again. What? Why do I carry around Mentos? Fresh breath, dummy. Oh, the other thing. Because, Doug, I know things. Let’s just say there was a lot…
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Things Are Still Falling Apart
Chinua Achebe was briefly interviewed in NYT Magazine last week. In the interview he talks about current Nigerian politics, focusing on the weakness of the Nigerian Acting President, Good Luck Jonathan, who “suddenly doesn’t seem to bring good luck.” Click…
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THE BOOKOPTICON
“To become a literary star, having talent helps, but so does carving out a place in the tangled, incestuous web of the publishing world. Our interactive field guide illustrates how 10 young authors with potential best-sellers coming out this Spring…
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Notable New York, This Week 3/29 – 4/4
This week in New York Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood holds a reading series, Threepenny Review celebrates its thirtieth birthday, A Public Space throws a launch party for Issue 10, Paris Review holds a Fiction Salon, Meghan O’Rourke reads, Ryan McGinley shows…