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Morning Coffee
Kevin Van Aelst uses house-hold objects to illustrate scientific principles. Silly beautiful things. Also: pantone staircase. Are you a woman trying to make it in the criminal underground? You should probably move to naples! On the female pigeon planet and…
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The Rumpus Interview with Lydia Millet
When asked why I publish what I publish, I often reply—I publish in order to understand why I published. Until a book goes out into the world to be engaged with, tussled with, confronted, loved, argued over, no-one, not even…
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David Lynch Thinks About Ed Ruscha
Ed Ruscha, photographer of twenty-six affectless Standard gas stations in LA, Every Building on the Sunset Strip, and painter of words floating in space, with or without a setting, is the subject of a retrospective at London’s Hayward gallery, and…
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Dave Doyle: The Last Book I Loved, Perv–A Love Story
I am not a pervert. Well, I don’t think I am. At least not all the time–you know, it’s not like I’m consumed by depravity or anything. I guess all I’m trying to say is that perverts are people, too.…
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Things to Think About: Publishing Links
A new distribution model: give the book away for free. Powell’s weighs in on the Book Pricing Wars (via Publishers Weekly) “Authors Experiment with Twitterfiction” Will the Apple Tablet kill the Kindle? “Framing the Issue: Copyright from John Adams to…
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Waterworld
Loss and longing sit side-by-side with unexpected humor in Laura van den Berg’s stories, reminding readers of the strange things we encounter every day.
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Notable San Francisco, This Week 10/26 – 11/1
In San Francisco this week, David Sedaris, a night with Kevin Smith, the SF Jewish BookFest, and a Haunted Laundromat. Monday 10/26: Learn more about one of the cornerstones of civilization as we know it: water. An official Sundance Selection,…
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Random Media Notes
This has been a season of false starts for news organizations. “Newspapers Across the Country Show Steep Declines in Circulation” Redesigned CNN.com: More Opinion, Entertainment and Oprah “Newspaper sites are the patent-leather stilettos of the online world: they get used…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #7
“WHY I WANT TO VISIT HAWAII” BY FELICIA MCCARTHY ★★★★★ (2 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing “Why I Want to Visit Hawaii” by Felicia McCarthy.
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Notable New York, This Week 10/26 – 11/1
In New York this week, James Frey and Maira Kalman at the CLMP Spelling Bee, members of The National collaborate with visual artist Matthew Ritchie in The Long Count at BAM, Sherman Alexie and Chuck Klosterman read, Guernica Magazine turns…
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Emails From Gitmo, Read With a Drawl
At the website for the PEN American Center they’ve posted the audio and a transcription of Jonathan Ames reading FBI emails from Guantanamo Bay. There is something strangely enlightening about Ames’ drone. It’s almost judgement-less, allowing the listener to listen…