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Not-So-Ancient History
A first novel set in modern Zimbabwe begins: “Two days after I turned fourteen the son of our neighbor set his stepmother alight.”
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Still Bored to Death?
Jonathan Ames has a great blog about his HBO TV series Bored to Death. In this post he talks about the irony of engaging in an S&M session with his former student and then the very next evening being part…
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Notable San Francisco, This Week 10/19-10/25
This week in San Francisco, geek gods at Cafe Du Nord, Michael Bartalo talks recyclable art, Ghostface Killah hangs out on Haight street, and more: Monday 10/19: Get your nerd on at Cafe Du Nord’s W00tstock where geek gods Adam…
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Achebe Fights Darkness
Over at NPR is an interview with Chinua Achebe, author of Things Fall Apart. In the article, which is accompanied by an audio interview with Achebe, he talks about his relationship with Joseph Conrad’s 1902 novella Heart of Darkness. According…
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The Death of the Music Industry Foretold With Shapes
And other (the truth about Twitter) elegant (venn diagram of drugs) infographics (a time-line of media scare stories). Because information must be free — and beautiful.
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Notable New York, This Week 10/19-10/25
This week, Chinua Achebe speaks, n+1 in conversation with Reihan Salam and Ross Douthat, Jonathan Lethem reads, composer/drummer Bobby Previte with Psychedelic Furs’ Knox Chandler, photographer Jeff Wall presents more urban decay, “junkyard bohos” Huggabroomstik play, CMJ Music Marathon begins…
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A Clean, Well Lighted Place for Thoughtful Essays
Now here’s something you don’t see every day: a thoughtful, historical essay several thousand words long on the Huffington Post. The piece is a concise history of terrorism, or rather, of the modern chapter of terrorism, beginning in the nineteenth…
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Whatever Entrepreneurs Can Dream Up…
…con-men have thought of first. Wandering through Old Bailey records, I found an 1889 investor scam worthy of a dot-com:
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Kyle Kinane’s I’m Dead and It’s All My Fault #7
Look at how fat that cop is, Doug. Seriously, if you just took his gun and started running, what could he do? He wouldn’t catch you. Well, not you specifically. I’m just saying someone could. Oh yeah, Mr. Naysayer? Why don’t you…
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Morning Coffee
In Sweden, official’s have decided to start rounding up bunny rabbits and burning them for bio-fuel. Looks like SOMEONE’S got a case of the Mondays! “The placebo effect is not only real; its ability to deaden pain has been pinpointed…
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The Rumpus Interview with Alasdair Gray
Writer and artist Alasdair Gray is his own best nightmare. It took the modern Scottish bard twenty-five years to finish Lanark: A Life in Four Books (1981), his fat, strangely inspirational novel of urbanism gone awry.