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The Story Behind the Furry
Today we ran an interview with Kilcodo, a furry who makes her living making full-body fursuits for others, by Amy Letter. Here Amy tells the compelling story behind the interview: Prior to interviewing her, I knew only vaguely about her…
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10/40/70 #12: Straight Time
This ongoing experiment in film writing freezes a film at 10, 40, and 70 minutes, and keeps the commentary as close to those frames as possible. This week, I examine Straight Time, directed by Ulu Grosbard.
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #40
JUSTIN BIEBER’S WIG ★★★★★ (5 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Justin Bieber’s wig.
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#booksthatchangedmyworld
I apparently missed this tweetmeme the first time it came around, but when I saw it yesterday, I knew I’d wind up writing about it, just because books have always, it seems, been an important part of my life. Important…
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A Very Expensive Typewriter
Not that any of us can afford it, but Jack Kerouac’s last typewriter, a green Hermes 3000, is on the auction block at Christie’s. How do you folks feel about the monetization of writing “relics”? (via The Book Bench)
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Happy Bloomsday!
“I began wondering. If Ulysses was the Jewish Ulysses—and the Irish Ulysses, too, one would think—shouldn’t other cultures have Ulyssi of their own? Having worked as a weekly book reviewer, I came across marketese like this all the time: ‘Known…
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Simplify Me When I’m Dead
Keith Douglas has largely ceased to exist to most readers beyond those attracted to war as a subject. The reissue of Simplify Me When I’m Dead, containing forty-one poems, aims to correct that.
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Morning Coffee
Looking for a job? Perhaps you’d like to be a fake Chinese businessman. Caterpillars all pretending to be snakes and such. Dang man! I-swear-this-isn’t-an-Onion-article of the day: Ozzy Osbourne’s geonome to be mapped to ascertain why he is alive. Tree…