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Morning Coffee
It’s raining outside, everything is going to be ok. Let’s get straight to the point: a new David Attenborough series is a thing to be celebrated. Swedish architecture porn: Evolver! You are going to spend the next ten minutes watching…
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The Facts About John Cheever
The publication of a great writer’s collected works should be a cause for celebration, and or at least a measured reassessment. How disturbing, then, that the Library of America’s two-volume publication of John Cheever’s stories and novels has also been…
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TRUTH SERUM:
Defriendship (Part 1)Bay Area residents, come meet Jon Adams at the Alternative Press Expo this weekend (17th-18th). Or wait at home for him to come visit you. It will probably be while you sleep, but don’t worry – he’ll take pictures.
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Pictures of Space that Look Like Pieces of the Heavens
Last week Alexis Madrigal wrote a fascinating article on Wired.com about terrestrial astrophotography; that is to say, photos of the night sky taken from the ground. Most such photos that you can find online are vividly colored, as if they…
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Taking the Hit
Mike Webster, “one of the greatest players in N.F.L. history,” went on to become a recluse who slept on the floor at an Amtrak Station. Terry Long, who played for the Steelers, “killed himself four years ago by drinking antifreeze.”…
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You Caught Me
Tao Lin’s characters are constantly connected, yet physically detached. The technology they live and breathe often seems less mechanical than its users.
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Shakespeare and Thomas Kyd
The popular software Pl@giarism used to detect cheating students by comparing their papers against published texts was recently used by Sir Brian Vickers, an authority on Shakespeare, to determine whether or not Shakespeare collaborated with Thomas Kyd on The Reign…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #5
THE ROCKVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY ★★★★★ (3 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing the Rockville Public Library.
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Random Media Notes
Journalists who covered Iran’s election protests are fleeing the country in fear of retribution. Metro Desk at The New York Times cancels all newspaper and magazine subscriptions. “Facebook Asks Page Owners to Prove Authenticity” Czech papers go “hyperlocal” to save…
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Stephen Elliott at Gawker
Rumpus Editor Stephen Elliott discussed The Adderall Diaries in an open forum interview that took place in the comments section over at Gawker. The interview was moderated by James Frey. Why not swing by and check it out?
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Craig Schwartz Memories
On Friday night, and in preparation for Where the Wild Things Are, I rewatched Spike Jonze’s first feature, Being John Malkovitch. What struck me was not the film’s final childlike shots or how Christopher Walken and those expensive, “absurdly heavy” monster suits…