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Hannah Kingsley-Ma
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Look Closer
Yesterday marked the fortieth anniversary of the launch of Landsat, America’s longest running Earth-imaging satellite program. Since the NASA-run program began in 1972, Landsat has captured more than three million images of our planet. To look at some particularly stunning…
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“I’ve had guns pulled on me by four people under Central Mississippi skies . . .”
” . . . Once by a white undercover cop, once by a young brother trying to rob me for the leftovers of a weak work-study check, once by my mother and twice by myself.” All across the country, people…
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Olympic Poetics
“It’s easy to say poets are attracted to sport for reasons that have something to do with form. I’m sure that’s true, but I also think that it has something to do with the possibility of failure and, in the…
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The Art of the Book Blurb
How many methods are there to be uniquely flattering? Over at The Kenyon Review, poet and Rumpus contributor Jake Adam York takes a stab at naming the different ways to sing one’s literary praises. (Via The New Yorker)
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#REALTALK RETURNS
Ann Friedman, former executive editor of GOOD magazine and current staffer at Tomorrow, has relocated her much beloved blog #realtalk from your editor to the Columbia Journalism Review. It’s there that you can find sage advice about media new and…
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BOB ROSS MOMENT OF THE DAY
PBS is teaming up with Symphony of Science to remix old PBS classics. Devoted fans of the television network will recognize the distinctive head of hair on the star of their latest song – it’s a tribute to the late…
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Life and Times of A Bibliophile
“The love of books, the possession of them, can be thought of as an extension of one’s self or being, not separate from a love of life but rather as an extra dimension of it, and even of what comes…
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“Just a Bunch Of City Kids Climbing a Mountain . . .”
That’s the slogan for Washington II Washington, an annual week-long camping trip started by FOUND magazine editor Davy Rothbart. The coming trip will take kids from inner-city Washington D.C. and Southeast Michigan to Monogahela State Park in West Virginia. Washington…
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A NEW KIND OF NEIGHBORHOOD LIBRARY
The New York Times writes about community-generated libraries that are popping up on sidewalks across the country. Little Free Libraries are small wooden boxes full of books with latched glass doors, slanted roofs and a sign that reads “Take a…
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A Literary Take on America’s Sacrifice Zones
Check out this audio slideshow of author Chris Hedge’s and graphic journalist Joe Sacco’s newest endeavor, Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt (June 2012). Hedge and Sacco traveled across America to document different sacrifice zones – “areas that have been…
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AI WEIWEI: NEVER SORRY
Devoted fans of Ai Weiwei this side of the Pacific have reason to celebrate: Alison Klayman’s documentary on the celebrated Chinese artist is scheduled to premiere in U.S. theatres on July 27th. Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry follows the artist over…
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Dave Eggers Public Signings
Dave Eggers will be signing copies of his new book, A Hologram for the King, at two independent San Francisco bookstores this week: Tuesday, July 17th: Books Inc. (Opera Plaza) Noon to 1 pm, 601 Van Ness, San Francisco, CA Wednesday, July…