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Ariane Conrad: A Poem I Love
You’d think Stanley Kunitz, near 70 and hobbling through “Touch Me” would have slid off my 19 year old self. But it was the only poem that stuck, from a night of literary luminaries. 15 years later, returning—not the first…
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Morning Coffee
13 Scientific truths that do not make any sense at all. Frustrated by the state of the stock market? Perhaps trained rats could do a better job. Biology Today, a 1972 science textbook that is beautiful and bizarrely psychedelic. The…
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Scott Carrier
After hitchhiking from Salt Lake City to NPR’s national office, Scott Carrier became a unique radio producer, interviewing schizophrenics and amnesiacs. Here is a This American Life episode dedicated to his stories. He has also worked extensively with Hearing Voices.…
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Politics, Art, and “Paradox”
“Vision of art.” “King for a day.” “Looking for that last big idea.” These are just a few of the smashed together words and phrases that make up John Wilkes Booth’s head in Christian Verdun’s online art piece “paradox.” The…
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THE LONELY VOICE, a Column About Short Stories: “Around the Dear Ruin”
One of the great stories of my adopted city, San Francisco, is without a doubt “Around the Dear Ruin” by Gina Berriault. It also might be one of the saddest and cruelest. I’ve probably read this brief story twenty, maybe…
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Splinter Generation Event in Echo Park
If you’re in Echo Park, Los Angeles, this Saturday, May 9th at 7pm, and you want to see the kind of art and music today’s young’uns are making, check out The Splinter Generation Reading, Art and Music Collaboration at Stories…
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Action Cook Book
Len Deighton’s Action Cook Book—the long-lost 1965 gem by (yes) the airport-novel writer, which I pressed upon the public a few years ago in the Village Voice and on NPR —has been reissued! Well, reissued in Britain, but still. Pay…
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Furniture for Black People, and White People
Red House Furniture homepage. More from the Annals of Advertising.
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Music Samples
The much-hyped, long-awaited debut album Manners by electro band Passion Pit has finally leaked. You can only keep such stuff away from Internet-savvy people so long. If you haven’t heard “Sleepyhead,” one of the tracks off Manners, then it’s time…