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Jeremy Hatch
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Agnès Varda Interviewed
The Believer just published an interview by Sheila Heti with Agnès Varda, whose first film, La Pointe Courte (1954), is sometimes thought of as the first breaker in the nouvelle vague. Criterion just released a box set collecting 4 of…
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The Aptly-Named “Dead Hand”
Remember Dr. Strangelove? The Doomsday Machine? It turns out that something very like it, called the Dead Hand, was actually operational, in the USSR, from 1984 at latest, and its pieces may still be around today. PD Smith, author of…
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Don DeLillo on Writing as Freedom
Not long ago I was re-reading Jonathan Franzen’s famous Harper’s Essay as background to an essay I was working on, and towards the end Franzen quotes Don DeLillo, who had written to him: “Writing is a form of personal freedom. It…
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A Special Case of Plagiarism
Earlier today Chris blogged about a guy who’s translating Moby-Dick into emoji. Which reminded me of something. Recently one of our favorite writers, Damion Searls, was pondering a 2007 abridgment of Moby-Dick called Moby-Dick in Half the Time. The New…
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Proofs of Concept for Legal Pot Packaging
Print Magazine, anticipating the legalization of pot in the US within 15 years or so, asked four design firms to come up with commercial packaging for marijuana cigarettes. Strømme Throndsen designed an attractive box that holds 16, with an optional…
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VW’s 2010 Hybrid: Takeoff on a 1993 Sculpture?
Yesterday the Wheels Blog at the New York Times wrote up the new Volkswagen L1 — a prototype for a tiny single-seater that they claim will be the most efficient car in the world, getting 158 miles per gallon of…
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Alleged Artists Allegedly Using the Allegedly-Stolen Pencils
You remember how Damien Hirst sued a 17-year-old kid, Cartrain, for having used an image of “For The Love of God” in a work, and in revenge, Cartrain pinched some pencils from Hirst’s installation “Pharmacy”? Cartrain was arrested and is…
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Not the Greatest Villains Then Living in the World
The other week, The New Yorker published an excellent article by Caleb Crain about the peculiar economics and politics of life aboard a pirate ship in the 17th and 18th centuries. When the captain of an English slave ship was…
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Postcards from Lagos
The other week, Juxtapoz photographer Chris Osburn published a bunch of photos from a recent trip to Nigeria, and he’s calling the series Postcards from Lagos. He reports that Lagos is a place where you have to stay alert, lest…
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Label 228: Art on Priority Mail Stickers
Soft Skull Press has got a new book out called Label 228, featuring art made on Priority Mail labels. Juxtapoz blogger Elise Hennigan has written a review of the book that includes some samples of the collected art. The curator,…
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The Ultimate Gateway Drug to Life on the Right
At the New Republic, there’s an amazing review of a new Ayn Rand biography by Jonathan Chait that actually explains everything you need to know about the American right. An infatuation with Rand’s works is something of a rite of…
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“I’m a Big Roger Miller Fan Myself.”
There’s an interview with Rudy Wurlitzer over at Chuck Palahniuk’s site; we recently reviewed his first novel, Nog. Although the introduction features some questionable vocab (Wurlitzer is said to be “imminently” readable, which I guess means he’s always about to be…