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Funny Women Around the Web, 12/18/09
One of the funniest women on Internet–actually, one of the funniest women alive–is D.E. Rasso, did you know? Thanks to Maud Newton now I know. I really love Maud Newton.…
Morning Coffee
Here are some pictures of a fireplace in a Norwegian kindergarten. You know, if that’s your thing. You might like to think we are above posting things about drunk 4…
The Rumpus Review of 35 Shots of Rum
Possibly the most humanistic character study from director Claire Denis: thoughtful, endearing, and rendered with exemplary tact.
Paul Bowles, Travel and the Non-Christian World
“With few exceptions, landscape alone is of insufficient interest to warrant the effort it takes to see it. Even the works of man, unless they are being used in his…
Adventures in Russian Literature: An Upcoming Adventure
“They couldn’t figure out exactly where the book fit. Part literary criticism, part travel writing, part memoir, Batuman’s collection of seven nonfiction pieces moves from the campus of Stanford University…
Honoring an Amazing Writer and Father
“He had raised three of us single-handedly following my mother’s premature death when we were five, seven and nine. It was the 60s, when single fathers didn’t do that sort…
Single Sentence Animation: Lydia Davis’s “The Cows”
Artist Donna K. riffs off a sentence from author Lydia Davis’s “The Cows,” featured in Electric Literature No. 2.
Nights of Siberia
Alexander Alexeieff’s illustrations for Joseph Kessel’s Les Nuits de Siberie (1928):
In the Art Rags
Larry Sultan is dead. The photographer behind Pictures from Home passed away from cancer on Sunday at the age of 63. The SF Chron, NY Times, and LA Times have…
Pictory Magazine’s San Francisco Feature
The newly-launched and amazing Pictory Magazine just published a beautiful and interesting showcase of twenty-eight photos of San Francisco; don’t miss their first showcase, Overseas and Overwhelmed, either!
Morning Coffee
Dash Shaw’s mini-comic for Vice is pretty great. Britain’s first full-scale high speed rail is up and running (and pretty looking!) In case you forgot, Big Picture’s photographs of 2009…