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Isaac Fitzgerald
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Remembering Jim Carroll
Eryn Loeb remembers her love for Jim Carroll’s work, but asks “What Do We Owe a Dead Writer?”
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Poetry and a Dick Joke
Rumpus Poetry editor Brian Spears will be publishing poems all week at No Tell Motel. Brian explains his plans for the coming days here (you can learn more about No Tell Motel here). While we’re on the topic of Mr.…
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Republic of Metal
“Botswana Heavy Metal Generation” is a beautiful photo essay by Johan Persson that explores “one of the most vibrant and fast growing heavy metal scenes in Africa.”
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Extra Space
“Typing two spaces after a period is totally, completely, utterly, and inarguably wrong.” Farhad Manjoo believes you should “never, ever” use a double space after a period. (via TheMillions)
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Have You Told a Story Today?
Good news for those of us who like to tell a tale, “story-telling may help to lower blood pressure.” (via TheBookBench)
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“No More Lonely Moments.”
Well would you look at that, McSweeney’s has launched version 2.0 of “Small Chair,” their very enjoyable iPhone app.
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Literal New Yorker Captions
The Monkeys You Ordered improve New Yorker cartoons by giving them literal captions (via Kottke):
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Smears and Stories
Baltimore Police Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld III believes that David Simon’s hit HBO show The Wire serves as a “smear that will take [the city] decades to overcome.” David Simon responds, saying “The Wire owes no apologies — at least…
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“What got you started?”
“Anger. I was unemployed, and had just spent a day feeling overwhelmingly disenchanted. In anger, I wrote a sentence and then a paragraph and then a page. And then I just kept going.” The Guardian talks with author DBC Pierre…