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Hey, Design Junkies
Check it out: a detailed look at last year’s New York Times Magazine redesign with Design Director Arem Duplessis. (via @brilliantism)
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“Horses Aren’t Extinct”
“I don’t think paper has hit bottom by any means, but I also don’t think it will be a quick or simple fall. There will be bumps and twists and surprises on the road down. Print on paper will never…
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The Rumpus Long Interview with Paula Fox
“I can’t write about what’s going on in the next room, fiction. I can only write what’s going on in this room, reality. Of course one invents with reality also.”
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Morning Coffee
Sherman Alexie has written you a poem about My Sharona. (via GerryCanavan.) WFMU’s best show takes you through the darker side of power pop (mp3). The always reliable New Scientist has a handy list of tricks for alien trackers. Check…
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“True to my heart and true to art.”
“But here now was Patti Smith: a gangly, atonal, and androgynous punk poet wailing about her lack of faith in Jesus, and boys humping parking meters. Patti turned my Top 40 brain inside out. Gave it a sex change. A…
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The Lost Books of the Odyssey
Dreams, vignettes, hypotheticals, and poetry lay out alternate versions of Western literature’s founding epic.
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A Big Step in France
“France has become the first country in the world to remove gender identity disorder, also known as transsexualism, from its list of officially recognized mental illnesses.” While the issue is certainly complicated, this is incredible news.
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Gilliam Hearts Bulgakov
“Why do I keep running away from Mikhail Bulgakov? I’ve been on the run for years now. From the first time I was encouraged to read The Master and Margarita, I have been pursued by keen film producers trying to…
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Movies, Briefly: Vanishing Point (1971)
I’m not a big fan of the moment early in the film where Barry Newman’s Kowalski drives past himself in a different car and disappears into thin air (“Holy crap! He just vanished! THAT MUST BE THE VANISHING POINT!”) and…