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P.E. Garcia

P.E. Garcia is an Editor-at-Large for the Rumpus and a contributor to HTMLGiant. They currently live in Philadelphia, where they were recently accidentally elected to be Judge of Elections. Find them on Twitter: @AvantGarcia.
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    The History of Whiskey

    NPR reviews Noah Rothbaum’s new book, The Art of American Whiskey, and takes a closer look at the evolution of whiskey labels.

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    Exorcisms, the Devil, and Helpful Grammar Tips

    The Codex Gigas…contains the Old and New Testaments of the Bible, as well as an assortment of other texts that tackle everything from practical instructions for exorcisms to seventh-century grammar tips written by Isidore, the scholar-turned saint of Seville. Atlas…

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    Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee

    (Dan Weiss is out on tour with his band The Yellow Dress. He’ll be back on August 3rd.) While we’re getting rid of the flag, here’s some other Confederate memorabilia we should get rid of. Russia is trying to promote…

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    Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee

    (Dan Weiss is out on tour with his band The Yellow Dress. He’ll be back on August 3rd.) Despite Tipper Gore’s fears, 80s metalheads grew up to be well-adjusted adults. This vintage movie preview shows that 1982 might have been…

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    Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee

    (Dan Weiss is out on tour with his band The Yellow Dress. He’ll be back on August 3rd.) What happened when Colorado gave out free birth control: exactly what you’d expect. What happened when a man tied 100 helium balloons…

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    Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee

    (Dan Weiss is out on tour with his band The Yellow Dress. He’ll be back on August 3rd.) Move over, polar bears: global warming now threatens billionaires’ private islands. You can get Leonardo da Vinci’s Tuscan villa for a measly…

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    Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee

    (Dan Weiss is out on tour with his band The Yellow Dress. He’ll be back on August 3rd.) British Loyalists had nothing to celebrate after the Revolutionary War. Mine your own fireworks. Now you can take a bath in crude…

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    Nine Indian Women Poets

    The venom of an evil actually engages us: it brings together those who feel invariably shunned by an unjust and misogynistic world. For the Ploughshares blog, John Rufo discusses the importance of Eunice De Souza’s anthology, Nine Indian Women Poets.

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    The Mystery and Controversy of Lewis Carroll

    In fact, as far as his daily life went, “Lewis Carroll” was a complete non-person. Charles was always known personally only by his real name, letters directed to the pseudonym were returned unanswered, and he would walk away if strangers…

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    25 Years of Drawn and Quarterly

    Over at NPR, Glen Weldon looks at a new anthology of Drawn and Quarterly that collects the Canadian comic publisher’s first 25 years.

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    The Families Who Tried to Save Five Hostages

    Diane came and hugged me and said, ‘Father, please pray for me that I don’t become bitter. I don’t want to hate.’ For the New Yorker, Lawrence Wright provides a detailed and heart-wrenching account of the people who came together to try…

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    Rising Costs, Failing Students

    Colleges and universities cannot be expected to solve America’s problems of inequity. They cannot repair broken families, or make up for learning deficits incurred early in childhood, or “level the playing field” for students with inadequate preparation. But they should…