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The Stranger Things Mixtape
If you haven’t been watching Stranger Things, you’re probably being chased by a monster in “the upside down.” The show’s soundtrack is a mashup of synth-laden soundscape themes and ’80s throwbacks that’ll have Gen Xers’ hearts yearning for that simpler, cellphone-free era. And…
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The Next Bukowski of Tattooing?
Jonathan Shaw is a writer and tattoo artist who has inked just about everybody. He’s at the top of his game. Check out this podcast and find out more.
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The Read Along: Jessa Crispin
Jessa Crispin on reading abroad, watching ships chug through the Bosporus, and watching Outlander.
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Next Letter for Kids: Cylin Busby
We’re sending our next Letter for Kids from Cylin Busby! Cylin writes to us about her childhood farm and all her barn cats—wow, did she have a lot of cats! And they were the best mousers in the world! Subscribe by August 11 and find…
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Weekly Geekery
Nabokov’s epilepsy, heart problems, and unpublished letters. A dictionary for the fleshy bits of brain that store our words. Ephemerality meets Instagram. The secret sauce behind NBC’s Olympics telecast. Your designated BFF might not even know your name.
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Stories in Their Hair
Jessica Miller writes for Catapult on hair during World War II, using the practical reality of people’s hair to glimpse into war’s ordinary life and extraordinary horrors.
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This Week in Indie Bookstores
The World Bank houses a bookstore. Unfortunately, it’s closing. Harry Potter is causing a legal dispute between two bookstores in the Philippines, with one store claiming a legal monopoly over the book. CityLab checks out The Last Bookstore, a massive bookstore warehouse…
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An Explanation, Not a Justification
At Lit Hub, Joyce Chen explains The Seventh Wave’s reason for being (not that she needs to): We were not trying to prove ourselves “right” or defy any odds to become a household name; we simply wanted to exist.
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Among Strange Victims by Daniel Saldaña París
Salvatore Ruggiero reviews Among Strange Victims by Daniel Saldaña París today in Rumpus Books.
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Don’t Forget the Bunting
If Basil Bunting were not remembered for “Briggflatts”—his longest and best poem, first published fifty years ago—he might still be remembered as the protagonist of a preposterously eventful twentieth-century life. Poet Basil Bunting had an unconventional life full of interesting journeys…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Brazil’s fading love hotels is my favorite thing today. What happened to Babylon? Congratulations everybody! We ran through our resources even earlier this year! Speaking of things being awful: photographing Syria before and after. Not everything’s bad though, it looks…
