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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 a kind of charming anthropology, a study of the real…
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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 of parenting and pregnancy. And the trove of invaluable, ridiculous…
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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.” (via Laughing Squid) Want a peek inside the weird world…
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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 riders signal the end of print newspapers.
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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, politically conservative, emotionally acerbic lawyer living in Kansas City during…
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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 imagined haunt people who fear or pursue them.” Anya Yurchyshyn…
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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.
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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?
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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, and wow, doesn’t that sound enthralling. But seriously, it’s an…
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Making Out in the Back of Horseless Carriages!
Teen hysteria, courtesy of the February 14, 1925 issue of the New York Evening Journal: