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Sam Riley
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Me-Focused Pop Music
Psychologists, nonfiction writers, journalists, concerned parents, and probably Jonathan Franzen, are increasingly focused on critiquing this “me”-focused generation, or the “cult of self-esteem” that shelters and coddles kids and invites a dangerous amount of first-person-based thinking. And this inward focus…
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Bill Keller on Books
Bill Keller is doling out more contentious opinions! We already found out what he thought about twitter— its consequences on our cognitive abilities and its potentially deleterious effect on the well-being of his thirteen year-old daughter. But now he is…
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Soda Series This Thursday
New Yorkers! This Thursday is doubly excellent for you because not only is it Bastille Day, it’s the next Soda Series event, a reading and conversation series. This event is featuring writers Mary Caponegro, Tim Horvath, and Gary Lutz. Where…
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Young Artist, Mean World
The art world is a rough place, which is the practical thought behind art schools offering courses on grant-writing and portfolio building. Still, even with the presence of these utilitarian courses, when embarking on your formative artistic education, how can…
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The Trees The Trees
HTML Giant’s reviewing The Trees The Trees, which is a collection of poems by Heather Christle with twice the title you think it would have, and also not a Terrence Malick movie. The review in it of itself, is impressive…
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SPE, Revisited
“Forty years later, the Stanford Prison Experiment remains among the most notable—and notorious—research projects ever carried out at the University. For six days, half the study’s participants endured cruel and dehumanizing abuse at the hands of their peers. At various…
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Hello, Big Brother: Unlike twitter and other social sites, facebook doesn’t inform you if the government wants to snoop around in your account data. Lame. Hello, Big Brother (take 2): the government wants to require Internet providers to retain 18 months of logs…
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Milk Just Got Offensive
Uh oh—here is the latest reason to be offended by normative gender divisions. The California Milk Processor Board has a new advertising campaign that focuses on the milk’s ability to alleviate PMS symptoms because of its vitamin D and calcium…
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Look At How Much Fun We’re Having!
“Take Me Home,” the midsummer monthly Rumpus event, happened last night. Just to recap, it was a phantasmagoria of poetry, comedy, music and a lot of emotion. Thanks to all who made it out! Here is some photo documentation as…
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Vendela Vida Through the Years
The Guardian profiles author and editor, Vendela Vida—tracing her story-telling history back to the lies of her childhood, the first time writers intersected with her Bay Area existence, to the release of her most recent novel, The Lovers (which is…
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FUNNY WOMEN #59: Looking for Best Friends, m4ww
Craigslist is unfiltered potential. It’s criteria gone crazy. In a single day, you can get ripped off, score free kittens,