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LaToya Jordan
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Notable New York, This Week 7/25-7/31
This week in New York Smith Magazine Six-Word Memoirs and more, Poets House Showcase Reading, BOMB Magazine issue 116 party at powerHouse Arena, The Soundtrack Series at Le Poisson Rouge, Animation Block Party, and the New York Poetry Festival on…
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Bombay v. New York: A Very Short Q&A with Photographer Nisha Sondhe
Sometimes I walk through my city and think, “there’s no place like home.” I’m a native New Yorker and there are still things about the city that amaze me, such as seeing the Manhattan skyline from the pedestrian lane of…
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Writers Should Go To Prison
“Today, however, being chained to the desk, as the expression goes, is no longer a guarantee of productivity. Who can stick with the blank page when the click of a mouse opens up a cocktail party of chattering friends, a…
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Notable New York, This Week 7/18-7/24
This week in New York A Public Space presents a reading with contributor Robert Sullivan, Brando Skyhorse and friends read at KGB Bar, a reading by Finishing Line Press poets at Cornelia Street Café, Nerd Jeopardy at McNally Jackson, Moth…
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Blake Butler on Submissions
At The Awl, Blake Butler has let us in on a little secret: he’s posted a spreadsheet with every piece of writing he’s submitted from 2006 to 2008. It’s an impressively long list that includes where the piece(s) were submitted…
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What is Culture?
“Culture is anti-rivalrous. The more people know and sing a song, the more cultural value it has. The more people watch my film Sita Sings the Blues, or read my comic strip Mimi & Eunice, the happier I’ll be, so…
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The California Milk Board Has the Cure for PMS
“Milk can help reduce the symptoms of PMS,” says the new “Got Milk” ads by the California Milk Processor Board. Instead of targeting their ads to women (aka actual PMS sufferers), the board created an “Everything I Do is Wrong”…
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Science Saturday
Jello made from humans? So, maybe you don’t need to force yourself to drink those eight glasses of water a day. What can baboon males teach us about human males? (Or, what we probably could have guessed about men from…
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Saturday Morning Links
Good morning! I’m covering for Brian Spears today, who’s probably unpacking boxes in his new home (or sleeping) as you’re reading these links. Read this feature in The Stranger because it’s beautiful and the title is pretty friggin’ amazing: “My…
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Notable New York, This Week 7/11-7/17
This week in New York Rebecca Wolff reads from her new novel at Book Court; Under the Influence, an exhibition of hip-hop inspired art at powerHouse Arena; Poets House showcase reading; Monkeybicycle’s Lightning Round featuring women writers; Poetry from the…
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Your Unfinished Novel Here
My Unfinished Novels is a new website that asks the question, “Why was this novel abandoned?” If you’re holding onto 55 pages of a manuscript written in 1999 that you thought was going to be the “great American novel”—this is…