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Rene Daumal at Parabola
I spend a lot of my time rediscovering things. It’s a nifty, almost unconscious trick. All it necessitates is wandering through a landscape, engaging with reality and picking up on sensory cues. Whether it’s a certain food I once loved,…
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FUNNY WOMEN #2: A Play About Post-Racial America in Seven Acts
(or Seven Things White People Have Really Said to Me Since November 4, 2008)
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Tune of the Day
Artists: Raekwon ft. Ghostface Killah, Inspectah Deck, and Method Man Song: “House of Flying Daggers”
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Books
“Our world is fragmented, Amanda Eyre Ward seems to say, in all the ways that it might be. I’m going to put it back together for you, slowly. Take my hand.” Kurt Caswell on Amanda Eyre Ward’s new collection of…
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A Life in 3,653 Pictures
Almost every time I’ve been home to Toronto in the past six years, and visiting with my dear friends Greg and Meredith, I hear a really great story about Meredith’s friend Jeff Harris, who’s the photo editor at Maclean’s and,…
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Bicycle Byrne
David Byrne talks with USA Today about his latest book, Bicycle Diaries, which is described as “a political and philosophical travelogue tied together by Byrne’s bike rides in cities, from Niagara Falls to San Francisco, London to Manila.” The multi-talented…
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Random Media Notes
Rupert Murdoch is pounding the paid content drum again. Is CBS attempting to erase Dan Rather? “HuffPo Appoints New President And CRO” New York and Fortune both put pot front and center. Dan Brown’s The Lost Symobl breaks one-day sales…
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Honest Art: A One Question Interview with Peter Squires
“I am, for better or worse, a bit of an over-sharer who tends to wear his heart on his sleeve, so for me songs come more naturally (much to the chagrin of my exes).”
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Morning Coffee
This is sad, but it is also important: friendship. Normandy: Then and Now by French historian Patrick Elie. (via Metafilter) Borrowing something? Lending something? This might come in handy. Why would someone put salt on ice cream? Because. (Also, try…
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The Ultimate Gateway Drug to Life on the Right
At the New Republic, there’s an amazing review of a new Ayn Rand biography by Jonathan Chait that actually explains everything you need to know about the American right. An infatuation with Rand’s works is something of a rite of…
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Significant Objects
Significant Objects marries writing with eBay. For example, Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott describes his Hawaiian Utensils here. And you can bid on them here. All the money goes to the author.
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Luke Butler: Captain!
Friday night I walked up the crowded and sweaty streets near Union Square to Silverman Gallery for the opening of Captain!, new paintings and collages by Luke Butler. Butler deals in masculine icons of the sixties and seventies—dead presidents and…