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Jonathan Lethem Meets The Thing
I was waiting on a couple the other night at a restaurant where I work, and I saw a strange box on their table that had Jonathan Lethem‘s name printed on it. When they opened it up, a pair of…
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Derrick Jensen’s Essay from The Time After
In the time after, when industrial civilization is a bitter and too-slowly-fading memory, a memory of a nightmare too atrocious to be believed by those who were not alive in the time before and so did not experience it and…
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We Choose the Moon
An interactive re-creation of the Apollo 11 mission, using archival radio, film, and photographs, is currently underway at We Choose the Moon (.org); if you can tune in around 1:00 today, the astronauts will land on the moon once more,…
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Much Ado About Amazon’s Kindle Mishap
We covered the news that Amazon removed books from subscribers’ Kindles last week. There is, however, more to the story.
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A Survey of the Stripper Memoir
Early on in her stripper memoir Diablo Cody declares “strippers are the most fascinating, inscrutable animals I’d ever observed.” If the number of stripper memoirs that have appeared in the past few years are anything to go by, publishers agree.…
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Morning Coffee
Moleskine’s are kind of an amazing fraud, but that doesn’t stop me from wanting to go to the official Moleskine 2.0 Exhibition. Speaking of frauds, an Australian town has banned bottled water. Nothing says chasity like an iPhone app. This…
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Love Is a Plane Crash of the Soul
Two Latin American novels, published in English for the first time, stake out radically different artistic territory.
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“Unputdownable.” Yes, I Said It.
With apologies to commenters who hated the word “unputdownable” in my post last week about the worst words ever, I will now point you in the direction of Elizabeth Bachner’s brilliant essay on that terrible phrase. “There are … great…
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A Found 1969 Editorial on the Moon Landing
Mumpsimus was digging through his attic and found an old editorial his grandfather wrote for The Needham Times after the moon landing. Funny how a forty year old opinion piece is a million times more enlightened than Sarah Palin’s recent op-ed…
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Aunt Mary’s Storybook Project
A few weeks ago, I was lucky enough to be around while one of my best friends gave birth to a baby boy. It was an amazing experience. As a result, unfortunately, I had to spend a lot of time…