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Fotografo D’assalto
Modern day Paparazzi have both Federico Fellini and recently deceased photojournalist Felice Quinto to thank for their name.
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Morning Coffee
Scientifically speaking, we are all really boring. I don’t really understand how this works at all, but the code organ is a mighty fine way to kill some time. Diary Type is here to supply you with your weekly dose…
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A Father’s Pain
“The act of verbally expressing pain is a necessary prelude to the collective task of diminishing pain.” – Elaine Scarry, The Body in Pain Two weeks before Christmas of last year, my father was diagnosed with cancer.
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Take a Hike, or “Thoreau Was a Neuroscientist”
Stop reading this and go outside and take a walk somewhere nature-like. Right now. Okay, did you go? Good. Now you might actually pay attention to me.
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Politics Sunday
If you haven’t yet heard about Goodluck Jonathan, the new President of Nigeria, you should read this article. Why does everyone think artists are terrible at governing? Andrew Sullivan posts the full report from the Office of Professional Responsibility on “Enhanced…
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Some Notes on Lyricism
“Like most people, I would rather be someone else. The prose this other self would write would be sharp and coiled, deadly like a snake; not all soggy and attenuated like a garden hose, spritzing dewily, indiscriminately, over thorns and…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
At Maud, how much should philosophy and fiction have anything to do with each other? If you liked Julie Klausner’s interview here at The Rumpus and want more, she has another interview over at The New Yorker Book Bench. (Spoiler…
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The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement
In my (wow, it’s already been almost a) year here as Sunday editor at The Rumpus, I’ve never seen a week with so much incredible content. If you missed it, come take a peek.
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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
I’m always interested in new and engaging ways to bring writing to people, so with that in mind, Diagram’s 10th Anniversary issue is out–well, it’s not an issue, exactly. It’s a deck of cards. But I bought it, and everyone…
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Acts of the Faculty
There’s often a bit of overlap between writers and academia–not as much of one as those of us on the job market would like at times, but it’s there all the same. And so to my fellow writer/teachers, or for…