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Hannah Kingsley-Ma
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Thank You Much
What do you want when you are young and itching with anticipation for the life you’ve always imagined yourself living? Everything. You want everything.
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Exploring the Redwood Forest: Journals and the Private Self
Lately, over crumb-laden dinner tables and cups of coffee and on windy hillsides I ask friends, family, and peripheral acquaintances whether or not they write in a journal.
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FURTHER GLIMPSES INTO ZADIE SMITH’S NEW NOVEL
“Pencil leaves no mark on magazine pages. Somewhere she has read that the gloss gives you cancer. Everyone knows it shouldn’t be this hot. Shrivelled blossom and bitter little apples. Birds singing the wrong tunes in the wrong trees too…
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Enough About the Cheaters
This past week has seen its fair share of breaking stories about cheating. Giants’ fans were saddened to hear about the downfall of Melky Cabrera, whose performance-enhancing drug scandal was made all the more sordid by recent allegations of an…
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What We’re Missing
If you’ve ever wondered about a particular brand of wit in France or what it means to be perpetually unlucky in Yiddish, Mental Floss has a list of eleven wonderful idioms with no direct English translations. Read them here.
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Fiction Blurred in Oakland
The LA Times reports that a Bay Area bookstore will be transformed into a pop-up record shop this coming September, in connection with the release of East Bay author Michael Chabon’s forthcoming novel Telegraph Avenue. Diesel Bookstore is an independent…
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In Defense of Lolo Jones
Much controversy has been sparked over the recent media attention being bestowed on the American hurdler Lolo Jones. Jones, who placed fourth in this Olympics’ 100-meters hurdle competition, has been a figure of debate since the New York Times wrote…
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Community Bookstore 2.0
The Washington Post reports on the efforts to save a bookstore near and dear to the hearts of many Bay Area residents. Until its first closure in 2005, Kepler’s Books had been a Menlo Park institution since it’s founding in…
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Mark Twain, Silent Movie Star
Check out the “only existing footage” of iconic American author Mark Twain – a silent film snippet from 1909 taken at Twain’s Connecticut home by his friend Thomas Edison. (Via The Atlantic)
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Notable San Francisco: 8/6-8/13
This week in San Francisco . . . Monday 8/6 – Quiet Lightening will be having a reading at the Conservatory of Flowers as part of their summer series The Greenhouse Effect. Doors open at 6:30pm so people can peruse…
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What To Do With An MFA
Over at The Millions, writer Nick Ripatrazone offers his advice on what to do once you’ve graduated with a MFA: teach high school. Ripatrazone makes the argument that a career in secondary education can often times be a more conducive…
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EVERYTHING YOU WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT STEVE ALMOND’S TAXES
“Further questions should be referred to my accountant, the aforementioned Marty, who is no longer employed by H&R Block and who was, last time I checked, living in a small cardboard domicile outside Davis Square.” In response to Mitt Romney’s…