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“I had more to say, but this was enough.”
“Last year a friend came to stay with me for a night, when he was between apartments. […] “Now I enjoy weird, unresolved sexual tension as much as the next person who makes a living writing about sex and relationships,…
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“He Didn’t Know What He Was”
“The year my boy Danny turned six, my wife Penny and me took him down to Lexington and got him good and scanned because that’s what everybody was doing back then, and, like they say, better safe than sorry.” “The…
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n+1’s Non-Boring Panel on Healthcare
Leave it to literary magazine n+1 to get interesting people together to talk about interesting things that are of interest right now. For example, in December they had Malcolm Gladwell and Christine Smallwood discussing Evangelicalism and the Contemporary Intellectual. A…
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Morning Coffee
In honor of the cute essay we’re running this morning, here are some photos of an extremely cute baby elephant. Still not smiling? How about now? If you’re not into cuteness, you can always check out these modern-day recreations of…
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An Oral History of Love in Contemporary America: Selections from Us #2
Kayla James, Age 5 Bellingham, Washington “He had a lot of cool toys, and I really liked the toys.”
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Show Me More Funny Books Please
“But there is another issue, too: one for which you can’t blame publishers or booksellers. The thing about being funny is that it’s really hard. “It’s a lot harder than being serious. It requires wit, grace, agility, sensitivity; it requires…
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Life Is Not Karaoke Booth
In this debut novel, an American woman running from personal tragedy falls headlong into the confusions and solaces of Japanese culture.
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The Strange World of Shirley Jackson
“Shirley and Stanley lived with their children and 30,000 books in a rambling Victorian house near the post office in the village where Shirley had so memorably set her classic 1948 short story, ‘The Lottery.’ “Shirley did the family driving,…
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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #29: Go! Go! Go!
To get what you want in a romantic relationship you must say what you want.
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The World’s Largest Book Club
“What if everyone on Twitter read the same book at the same time and we formed one massive, international book club?” Jeff Howe (@CrowdSourcing) lays out his “scheme” to create the world’s largest book club using Twitter. “One Book, One…