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Julie Morse
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Dan Weiss will return on January 24th. Until then… Breathalyzers: no longer just detect blood alcohol content, now they diagnose bacterial infection. Paying respects to coder supreme Aaron Swartz. Levels of affection can manipulate a rat’s DNA. Pollution is a record-breaking…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Dan Weiss will return on January 24th. Until then… Kill your bed bugs by taking this pill. The Museum of Math just opened its doors. It’s home to the world’s only L.E.D. foot-touch “math square”. Want to be an astronaut?…
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Juicing With Arthur Miller
“Drugs won’t do the writing for you, but steroids can take a monologue that would have gone to the warning track and knock it out of the park.” Apparently steroids are not just reserved for the athletic. At The Morning…
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A Dolphin With A Reputation
SF Weekly sits down with Malcolm J. Brenner, author of Wet Goddess and ex-lover of a dolphin. It might be one of the most fascinating interviews you’ve ever read. She began doing things like opening her jaws and running her…
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Night Writer Society and the 6-Word Memoir
The Night Writer Society, a new and mysterious group of writers based out of 826 Valencia is hosting its first event on February 5th featuring Larry Smith, creator of SMITH Magazine and the six-word memoir. Participants will spend the evening…
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NYC Public Libraries Are Happenin’
Despite the surge of e-literature and the fact that since 2008, the city has cut back library funds by $68 million, NYC public libraries have become exceedingly more popular in the last year. There has been a 40% increase in…
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Happy Birthday, Simone de Beauvoir!
You would have been 105 today. “I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and…
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The Last Poem I Loved: She Had Some Horses by Joy Harjo
Reading my own poetry feels like looking into a blurred old mirror at an antique shop. I can’t tell if I look good or pale and pasty. I can’t figure out if it’s my writing or my self-criticism that is…
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Saving Enoh Meymesse
Cameroonian writer and activist Enoh Meyomesse has been detained for thirteen months–including one month of solitary confinement–at Kondengui Central Prison in Yaoundé, despite the fact that he has yet to be convicted of anything. Meyomesse has authored several books and…
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TMN 2013 Tournament of Books!
The Morning News just announced its 2013 list for the tournament of books! And as they say, “the granddaddy of highbrow bracketology is back!” The list of 16 books will compete against each other come March, and a roster of…
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Judge a Book by Its Cover
E-books have sort of shadowed the art of the book cover. Yet at The New York Times, graphic designers were asked to cast their votes on the best-looking book jackets of the year. Even if you are an e-reader convert,…
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Holiday Wishes
A French bulldog. Big turkey dinners. Happiness. At The Atlantic, Rumpus pal Jon Cotner has taken another stroll through New York City streets to pose blunt, fun questions to strangers. This time the query was: What is your holiday wish?…