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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #4
TIME TRAVELERS ★★★★★★ (5 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing time travelers.
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Some People are Always on the Right Side of History
Marek Edelman: leader of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (and late Warsaw Uprising); stayed in Poland to become a cardiologist and save lives where he couldn’t during the war; stood with the Solidarity movement against Communisim. Died Friday at 90.
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A Booming Business Isn’t Always a Good Sign
The Atlantic covers Leak & Sons Funeral Home in Chicago’s South Side. Business is up, and that’s not a good thing, especially when the average age of the deceased is getting younger and younger, and they’re not dying of natural causes.…
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Notable New York, This Week 10/5-10/11
MONDAY, October 5, 2009 – SUNDAY October 11, 2009 This week in New York, Stephen Elliott reads from his memoir The Adderall Diaries, which has its East Coast Launch with n+1, Spike Jonze week in New York, Sufjan Stevens performs,…
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The Woman Behind Your Weekends
If you look up the New Deal on Wikipedia you’ll hardly see Frances Perkins‘ name mentioned. Yet, as the first female cabinet member, serving as FDR’s Secretary of Labor, she was the major force behind such revolutionary acts like minimum…
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Kyle Kinane’s I’m Dead and It’s All My Fault #5
No, no, no—you wear rubber boots for plumbing work. Think about it, Doug. If the pipe breaks, you don’t want your feet to get wet. For electrical stuff it doesn’t matter. Now throw me the wire snipper thingy. We’re getting…
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If you were wondering whether they still ban books
The answer is yes. And thanks to the freedom of information represented by the Internets, we can now track book bannings on a handy interactive map.
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Beckett and the Guy from New Jersey: A Conversation About Joshua Cohen’s A Heaven of Others
A few weeks ago, the literature blog HTMLGiant hosted a heated discussion about whether or not difficult modernist novels like James Joyce’s Ulysses might find a publisher in today’s literary marketplace. Of the hundreds of responses to the thread and…
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Morning Coffee
Architecture porn of the week: totally sick Singapore garden design. Bizarre police sketches. Cakehead brings you a gallery of awesome and bizarre vintage inventions. My new hero: Liu Bolin, extreme camouflage expert. We are living in the future when articles…
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R. Crumb’s Version of Genesis
Comic book genius R. Crumb has a new book coming out. This is very exciting for me. What’s even more exciting is that said book is his own personal version of Genesis. Not the band. The first book of the…
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Bright Lights, Big City and “The Shattering of the Self”
“…Jay McInerney’s 1984 publication of Bright Lights allows us excavation to an even earlier level of American self-confusion. The novel’s second-person narrative, which people found so powerfully affecting, cannot be dismissed as but a clever trick when seen in a…
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American Short Story Writers Are Taught To Do It Wrong
John Barry has a piece up at The Baltimore City Paper in which he argues that too many American short story writers are taught to try to mimic that famous last paragraph in James Joyce’s short story “The Dead.” And…