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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Victorian era cosmetic arsenic eating (is a thing that happened). Glad to know I’m not the only person who’s wondered if you can suntan through a window. Very important vintage (mostly) Australian travel posters. Maybe dogs can see magnetic fields?…
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The Rumpus Interview with Elizabeth Kadetsky
Elizabeth Kadetsky talks about her new novella On the Island at the Center of the Center of the World, writing about trauma and external forces, and coming to fiction from journalism.
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Pirating Research Papers
Academic publishers have been raking in huge profits, and their reluctance to giving open access to academic journals without collecting fees limits researchers. One Russian scientist has found a solution, a new website dubbed “the pirate bay for scientists.” Sci-Hub bypasses…
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Of Boston and Poetry
But any poet today who shared Longfellow’s taste would be laughed out of the room. He wanted heroism; we want the ordinary. He wanted grand dramas; we want insightful understatement. He wanted music; we want images. Over at the Ploughshares blog,…
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This Week in Posivibes: Seth Bogart
The Hunx & His Punx frontman released his self-titled solo debut via Burger Records last Friday, and it’s excellent. Featuring Kathleen Hanna, Tavi Gevinson, Cherry Glazerr, and Chela, the album is heavier on the synths than Bogart’s other projects and is produced by…
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Coming of Age
The publication of Go Set a Watchman may have cast Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird in a new light, but the high school classic and its author will forever occupy an essential spot in the American literary canon. Michiko…
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FUNNY WOMEN #136: Recommendation Letter
RN Healey makes for excellent company because she bathes frequently and keeps her fingernails immaculate.
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Next Letter in the Mail: Edan Lepucki
We’re getting ready to send out our next Letter in the Mail, and it’s from Edan Lepucki! Edan sends us a handwritten letter about starting her maternity leave, her thoughts about several books she’s read recently, and a few of her other obsessions. You…
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Weekly Geekery
Competing views of our technological progress. The exciting life and revolutionary science of Robert Trivers. Racism, psychology, and the British Empire. What’s in a name? A glacier.
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A Running Start
Over at The Offing, Linda Chavers pens an important letter to “black girls everywhere”: I am giving you the prologue. You must go forward accepting and understanding that no one will ever do it as well as you do, and…
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This Week in Indie Bookstores
Chicago’s Wicker Park has been gentrifying, but Quimby’s, a quirky indie bookstore, remains a haven for alt lit. Amazon probably doesn’t care whether customers buy anything from its physical stores. The New Yorker takes a look at why China is cracking down…
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Really Good Fiction
Infinite Jest recently turned twenty, a birthday so momentous it merited a new edition of the tome for college students to display on their bedside tables. In light of the renewed discussion about David Foster Wallace’s magnum opus, D.T. Max…