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Chats with Random Men #4: James
Note: These are actual chats conducted on Facebook with men who instant message the musician Alina Simone. If you too keep getting scammed for money by Russian women, you won’t want to miss this week’s random chat with James…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
If you are a New Yorker you are drinking all sorts of tiny tiny shrimps. Literary jewels. Flavorwire has your crazy wonderful spill photography du jour. A look at Alexander Calder’s studio. (P.S. this is my new favorite blog.)
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Let Us Now Raze Famous Men
A Rumpus Meditation on Editors, Ambition, and Angry Dependence (in 33 loosely jointed parts): 1. On July 30, the managing editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review, Kevin Morrissey, took his life. His note stated that he “just couldn’t bear it…
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Judy Ossello: The Last Poem I Loved, “Interrogation” by Sophie Cabot Black
“When you have me as I’m standing / Against a wall” ignites memories of intimacy that overcome the who, what, where, and when of relationships. Intense moments have a quality of sameness. You feel alive in that moment, not specific,…
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The Last Book I Loved: Hopscotch
Would I find Cortazar? But I wasn’t really looking for Cortazar when I read his masterpiece, Hopscotch. I was, I’m sorry to say, looking for myself. And just to make the cliché complete, I was looking for myself while living…
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Does Your Language Shape How You Think?
The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis theorizes that if a language has no word for a certain concept, then the speakers of that language cannot understand that concept. Though this has been disproved, it’s still pretty interesting. How do words shape our behavior…
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I Will Blurb Any Book Within 24 Hours! #15
Tired of waiting weeks or even MONTHS for back-cover endorsements from recognizable authors? I, Mickey Hess, will blurb any book – that’s right, ANY book – within 24 hours! Just look at these satisfied customers: Shya Scanlon’s Forecast: “As writers,…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Today is going to be a good day I think. Hellof brains in jars. Another day, another set of Russian fruit sculptures. It is always a good idea to talk about Charley Harper’s Cincinnati Federal Building mural. High flying solar…