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Hos, Hookers, Call Girls, and Rent Boys
“There’s something unique about being a member of the sex worker club, an instant camaraderie that bonds one to people who would otherwise be strangers, and this chemistry is something of which Sterry can’t get enough.”
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Nicolas Le Borgne
The art website Fecal Face has a wonderful feature where they invite artists to submit some pieces along with answers to a standard questionnaire. From time to time they run one of these submissions as a “mini-interview.” Yesterday’s subject was…
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The Write Links
“Unsettled: The PW Survey on the Google Book Settlement” A Q&A with (rockstar) literary agent Georges Borchardt. Underground Library is hoping to do for the literary underground what MySpace has done for independent music. More on the Google settlement: “Libraries…
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Random Media Notes
The New York Times’ latest revenue stream? Seminars taught by columnists. “Elle Offers Internship to Homeless Girl” (via Mediabistro) Sony releases latest Kindle rival, the Reader Daily Edition. “Who’s Driving Twitter’s Popularity? Not Teens” New Vibe gets new editor-in-chief.
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Would Tolstoy Get Tenure?
“Name of applicant: Rimbaud, Arthur “The candidate is not suited to a university environment except as an expellable member of a fraternity – if one would take him. The committee unanimously withholds details.” Times Higher Education ponders how academic search…
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The Importance of Being Still: The Rumpus Interview With Charles Baxter
In his essay, Baxter discusses the degree to which Americans “have distrusted silence and its parent condition, stillness.”
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Morning Coffee
The LA Times looks back on “Day of the Locust.” For some reason, placebos seem to be getting more effective. Take THAT science and medical advances! Atlas Obscura is a wiki-type set for all the world’s oddities, curios, and tourist…
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Kubrick’s 1961 Lolita is the First 70s Movie
The other day I read a rambling but entertaining essay over on Bright Lights Film Journal, called All Tomorrow’s Playground Narratives, which analyzed Kubrick’s Lolita in terms of — well, approximately anything that occurred to the guy, it would seem.…
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Jennie Ottinger at Johansson Projects
Lately I’ve been trying to put myself together—eating seaweed and swimming laps. But Jennie Ottinger’s paintings, up at Johansson Projects in Oakland, reminded me it’s okay to fall apart.
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The Best Fake Holocaust Memoir Ever
Born (and undoubtedly circumsized) in 2001, Booklyn-based Heeb Magazine has been irreverently covering Jewish culture for nearly a decade. Recently they one-upped themselves in the hilariously inappropriate category with the Germany Issue’s Fake Holocaust Memoir Competition. The winner? A “harrowing…
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How to Leave Hialeah
“Crucet is endowed with the double vision that helped Richard Wright and Salman Rushdie describe the lives of marginalized people with poignancy, humor, and rich music.”