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Tony DeGenaro
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Putting Tracks on the Map
Jay Shells, an artist currently working in New York, is taking favorite rap lyrics and putting the tracks on the map … all over the Big Apple. This project, which Shells calls “Rap Quotes,” consists of homemade but very official-looking street signs…
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Joshua Mohr on Recklessness
Joshua Mohr, novelist and San Francisco resident, sits down with HTML Giant’s Weston Cutter to discuss craft, and his newest novel, Fight Song, in this brilliant interview: As artists, evolution is important. Learning and growing is important. I want to have the…
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The Believer Turns Ten!
Brooklyn’s Greenlight Bookstore saw McSweeney’s publication The Believer celebrate its tenth anniversary this Monday. “The Believer’s staff is all over the country, and we communicate primarily via email, so events like this are great because you get to spend time with…
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Sounds of Leigh Newman’s “Still Points North”
“The story was there in the music, down to the epilogue.” Leigh Newman’s memoir, Still Points North: One Alaskan Childhood, One Grown-up World, One Long Journey Home, gets a unique treatment over at Largehearted boy‘s Booknotes, a column where authors are…
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Radio Ambulante en inglés Coming Soon!
Join members of Radio Ambulante‘s first-ever English broadcast next Monday on KALW! Daniel Alarcón, executive producer, explains the fresh perspective of Ambulante’s mission: We begin from the premise that political boundaries may be real, but cultural boundaries are fluid. Our program…
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“Michael Kimball Writes Your Life Story”
Vaguely reminiscent of our very own Letters in the Mail, Michael Kimball’s new book, Michael Kimball Writes Your Life Story (on a postcard) reinvents memoir in a way that would have Montaigne going postal. In his review, Joseph Riipi shares some of…
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“Has the Vinyl Revival Gone Too Far?”
A.V. Club contributor Jason Heller places his bets on the (suspected to be short) future of the vinyl revival in this article about the reissue of Kenny Rogers’ The Gambler. Observing a risky trend in artificial rarities, Heller argues new…
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Alphabetical Straightjacket: Future Dictionaries
“For most of its life, the dictionary has been limited by alphabetical order. That was the default way to navigate through the text … so if you wanted to see all the terms for, say, a loose woman that were…