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“Model Release”
William T. Vollmann’s invoice to Penguin for “four street prostitutes’ modeling time,” from Penguin 75: Designers, Authors, Commentary (the Good, the Bad…). Larger version here.
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Single Man Seeking Woman 4 Duets in Sacramento, CA
Let’s find this guy a karaoke girlfriend (he posts his phone number here).
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Dead Ahead
Doller’s facility with language, and his wheeling imagination, which pushes language into fresh directions, never ceases to delight the reader.
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A Quaint, Midafternoon Panic Attack by Virginia Woolf and Other Improved Titles
Ever love a book but hate the title? Blogger Dan Wilbur feels your pain. Check out his new site Better Book Titles. One Long Sentence About Handjobs is way catchier than Ulysses anyway. We also really enjoyed this one:
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Used Is In
Used books are on the rise, fueling book sales from Salt Lake City to Saint Louis. Take notes, Wall Street – while not many companies can say they made money in 2009, used booksellers like Half Price Books and Alibris…
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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #47: The Reckoning
Our kids deserve that, don’t they? To be loved shimmeringly? Yes, they do. So let’s get to it.
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Morning Coffee
Just another reason to love Japan: Kyoto’s Iwatayama Monkey Park. The sweetest montage video you’ll see all day. Pretty darn fantastic dirty car art. (via Flavorwire) Ok, this video is all sorts of cute too: otter plays with rock. Logo…
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Out Of Ugliness Comes Great Things
“I can’t help wondering if ugliness is not indispensable to philosophy. Sartre seems to be suggesting that thinking — serious, sustained questioning — arises out of, or perhaps with, a consciousness of one’s own ugliness.” In a recent installment of…
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The Latest on Prop 8
The stay is lifted, sort of. Judge Vaughn Walker decided today that same-sex marriages can resume in California on August 18. You can read the final stay order here. Why the delay? Judge Walker knew that Prop 8 opponents plan…
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Remembering Tony Judt
Tony Judt, the British historian and social critic, died last Friday at 62 from complications of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease. Although it left him nearly paralyzed, his brain was unimpaired, as evidenced by the series…
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A Great American Novelist Unveiled
“This week marks the first time that a full-time, professional writer—a ‘living American writer,’ as the New York Times puts it, (published politicians, movie stars, and athletes have day jobs, after all)—has made the cover, since Stephen King appeared, along…