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The Journal of Urban Typography
Such a simple concept: The Journal of Urban Typography is a digital collection of everyday, do-it-yourself signage. Normally you wouldn’t think twice about these signs, but taken together–curated even–they convey…
Welcome, Tiny Overlords
Perhaps you have a child. Perhaps you want one. Or perhaps, after reading a few articles at Let’s Panic About Babies!, you’ll be shocked barren. Let’s Panic! is The Onion…
Morning Coffee
50 years of beautiful space exploration (be sure to view the large image). Top 5 MFA rankings, rearranged. Just in time for Halloween, My Zombie Pinup: “Where Beauty Eats Brains.”…
Newspapers in New York: News Is a Verb
If you won’t read a newspaper on a New York City subway, where will you read it? As zeitgeist, as canary in the mine, the habits of New York subway…
Daniel Pearce: The Last Book I Loved, Mr. Bridge
Evan S. Connell’s Mr. Bridge—a companion piece to his earlier novel, Mrs. Bridge—offers a rare sort of company. And it’s unexpected company: Its protagonist, after all, is a tacitly-but-virulently xenophobic,…
All the Water
“Absent characters often hover around the edges of these stories. Children long for dead parents; husbands deceased, divorced, or ignored wander in and out of thoughts. Creatures both real and…
Annals of Advertising: Jeans in “America”
Yes, that is from a Walt Whitman poem; and apparently Walt thinks you need some new jeans. More from the Annals of Advertising.
The Blurb #11: A Fresh Eye
Why do so many of us, as readers or maybe as a society, assume that originality springs forth out of nothing, although at the same time we understand that every idea, every story, has a precedent?
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Leakage Problem
The American Scholar posted a fascinating (and a bit depressing) article by William J. Quirk called “Living on $500,000 a Year.” The article is about F. Scott Fitzgerald’s tax returns,…