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The Last Book I Loved: Rita Mae Brown’s Rubyfruit Jungle
Rita Mae Brown’s Rubyfruit Jungle is a crass and hilarious slice of growing up “different,” as fun to read today as it was in 1973. Molly Bolt is an unashamed lesbian in a queer-hating world, an ambitious natural leader in…
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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
Andrew Motion is retiring as Britain’s Poet Laureate, and he has a few words on the matter. Exoskeleton on the tension between “greatness” and the avant-garde in poetry. What do Britney Spears, James Joyce and William Shakespeare have in common?…
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The Forbidden Gaze
From The Guardian UK: “The story of how Actaeon was turned into a stag for glimpsing the naked goddess Diana has inspired artists through the centuries. Charlotte Higgins on a new exhibition that explores the idea of the forbidden gaze.”…
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Chandler’s Reverse Romances
March 26, 2009 is the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Raymond Chandler, the most important American detective fiction writer of the twentieth century.
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Cast Your Pod
Pandora too much work for your lazy ass? There’s a new indie-throbbing Music That Matters podcast over at KEXP (via Morr Music). Stellar rock photographer (and folky musician) Henry Diltz was a guest DJ at KCRW–the historical insight is better…
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Saturday Morning Links
Lots of people, myself included, mocked NBCU’s decision to change the name of the Sci-Fi Channel to the “hipper” and more easily textable “SyFy.” Michael Hinman, who created the website SyFy Portal ten years ago (now named Airlock Alpha), has…
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Lost Books Live Online
A person named simply “Will” curates a blog devoted exclusively to the spectacular cover art and reprinted manuscripts of books that have fallen from memory. The site, A Journey Round My Skull, is described as “unhealthy book fetishism from a…
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Math Wrath
The bizarre, pixilated art to be found on MathWrath.com can’t really be explained, and probably shouldn’t be. Just take it in, and don’t miss a pixel. Via Beautiful Decay.
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Damion Searls: The Last Book I Loved, Isaac Bashevis Singer’s Collected Stories
I could never tell him apart from the other ones, Asch and Abramovitsh and Aleichem and the rest. And those titles like “Gimpel the Fool,” straight from the old country? Well Singer, and the translator of “Gimpel the Fool,” some…
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Corey Arnold’s Fish Work
Thirteen years ago, photographer Corey Arnold took a job as a fisherman in Alaska as an adventurous way to pay off his student loans. The resulting photographs have been exhibited in galleries around the world, and have earned Arnold recognition…