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Caroline Kangas
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Best, Worst Review
Perhaps you’re the type that has stopped reading the comments section. Brian Allen Carr is not that type. Especially with regards to the comments written in his Amazon.com review section. After receiving an ineloquent one-star review he has now opened up…
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Beware the dying metaphor
We can only go so far as our imaginations will take us. Especially when it comes to innovations — even in science-minded fields like flight and computers. At The Millions, Rob Goodman muses on the power of metaphor to slow…
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Rapping and Scratching 101
We think you’ll share our excitement over this recently digitized 1985 video of a young LL Cool J teaching a small audience in a Maine gymnasium about the magic of rapping, scratching, and the human beatbox. You’re welcome.
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Modern Farmer: call for submissions
Think Old MacDonald needs a redesign? Modern Farmer is a print quarterly and website devoted to the people, policy, animals, plants, and technology around farming and food. And they want you and your thoughts—whether they be about farming rurally or…
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Netiquette from the early days
Been baffled recently by someone’s online behavior? At Full-Stop, Helen Stuhr-Rommereim offers advice drawn from the book published by those who pioneered the internet in 1995. A tip from the document: “…people with whom you communicate are located across the globe……
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Beautiful Destruction, a story of graffiti in NYC
“Layering and flow and the strategic, intentional use of rupture are tenets of hip hop’s aesthetic DNA, and I definitely wanted to reflect that in the book.” The Millions interviews Adam Mansbach about his new novel, Rage is Back, which centers on graffiti in…
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Adobe Bookshop Farewell Party
As Rumpus contributor Peter Orner recently said, “Don’t you all see what we are losing? If this city still has a soul, it’s at Adobe.” San Francisco’s Adobe Bookshop is going out of business, but not without a final hurrah.…
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“It’s a broad church that way”
In one brief quote, the contradictions and joys of literature as a mirror. Andrew Sullivan cites our interview with the eloquent Zadie Smith.
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Lessons from the Psych Ward
“‘I see he hasn’t killed you, then,’ he says casually. ‘You going soft in your old age, Larry?’” Scientific American has posted an excerpt of The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success by…
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Stalking Harper Lee
How far are you willing to go to know the work, the process, the life of an artist? The Millions’ Amy Whitaker delves into the world of Harper Lee in small town Alabama. While she doesn’t actually meet Harper Lee, Whitaker…
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Happy 40th, Schoolhouse Rock!
“I always heeded the children.” NPR’s Weekend Edition interviews Bob Dorough, composer, conductor, and singer of many of the Schoolhouse Rock songs. Dorough discusses some of his favorites, the demos that never made it to the show, and why math songs were…
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Tonight in Brooklyn: THE WORST!
THE WORST! is a hilarious evening of writers, musicians, and other weirdos telling stories about the worst jobs, roommates, and dates they’ve ever had. Tonight’s theme: New Year Nightmares. For only $5 you get stories from Eric Davidson, Ted Travelstead, Gregg Zehentner, Matt Dallow,…