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LaToya Jordan
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Rock Albums as Books
This is awesome: Christophe Gowans, a graphic designer from London, wondered what it would be like if some of his favorite albums were actual books. He designed book covers and even digitally aged them to be more authentic. Have you…
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Notable New York, This Week 4/11-4/17
This week in New York The Franklin Park Reading Series; Poets Mark Doty, Kathleen Graber, and Patricia Smith at Housing Works; Sex Worker Literati at Bowery Poetry Club; Neil Gaiman at Symphony Space; Writers read from David Foster Wallace’s The…
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Uterine Limericks at Mother Jones
Jen Phillips at Mother Jones decided to pen a limerick to express her outrage over the uterine fiasco with the Florida GOP, in which Democratic Representative Scott Randolph was reprimanded after he said the word “uterus” on the House floor.…
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Kids’ Books as Adult Personality Predictors
If you liked Little Women as a kid: “Family may be the most important thing to you, but that wouldn’t stop you from stealing your sister’s ex boyfriend.” —Flavorwire’s write-up on some favorite children’s books and what your favorite says…
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Notable New York, This Week 4/04-4/10
This week in New York a book party for Jim Shepard (with beer); a reading from the 2011 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Literature winner and finalists; actors perform short stories from Etgar Keret and Jonathan Safran Foer at…
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100 Years Ago at The New York Times Magazine
“Reading articles 100 years after they were published means that the topics are often surprisingly relevant. For example, when today’s media was talking about the 2010 census, I posted a Times Magazine article about how the 1910 census was counted…
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Book Reports on Christianity
Houston Judge John Clinton thought it would be a good idea to replace community service with book reports. Nine defendants were sentenced to reading a book of the judge’s choice and reporting back to court in a month to talk to him about it.…
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Notable New York, This Week 3/28-4/03
This week in New York Jennifer Egan at Book Court; Pitchapalooza; The Inspired Word featuring poets Samantha Thornhill and Veronica Golos, along with guitarist Valerie June; The New School Arts Festival on Noir; The Poetry Society of America brings poetry…
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Is Writing Therapy?
“Writing for an audience is about narration and structure and voice; it’s about the situation and the story. It’s not about how good or bad things are in your own psyche. It’s not about airing your dirty laundry, and it’s…
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Authors Insulting Bill
“For Bill—You douche bag, you think you can emotionally manipulate me, a very nice person, into insulting you, by appealing to my niceness? Fuck you, Bill. You were right. Fuck you, dude. <3” —Karen Russell, author of Swamplandia, in response…
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Notable New York, This Week 3/21-3/27
This week in New York RC Weslowski and a book party for Marie-Elizabeth Mali at louderArts, Deb Olin Unferth and Ben Marcus at The Center for Fiction, Dan Savage and his partner Terry Miller on It Gets Better at Barnes…
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Practice SelfControl
Instead of writing poetry or posts for The Rumpus, I was checking Facebook, e-mail, some message boards I belong to, and then refreshing Facebook again, and again. Perhaps if I downloaded this SelfControl app, I’d be a more productive person:…