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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Australia isn’t (quite) where you think it is, and that’s going to throw everything off. Niels Helmink’s Shopkeepers is your photo series for the day. As a West Coast child I dream of the golden days of midwestern firefly hunting.…
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Albums of Our Lives: My Chemical Romance’s The Black Parade
The summer before my final year at college, my fear started to manifest as an anxiety disorder specializing in sickness and disease.
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Swimming in Sprinkles
The Museum of Ice Cream promises to tap into childlike memories of summer days and ice cream cones. It combines those dreams with adult spending power: In the gift shop, premium sprinkles are sold for $11, next to $33 cone-shape…
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This Week in Posivibes: Teenage Fanclub
There are groups you love as a teenager, and whose music becomes a memory, something entwined in your life, but no more directly relevant to it than old episodes of Grange Hill or drinking cider in churchyards. There are records…
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Virgil for All
As part of its ongoing project to digitize its library of more than 80,000 manuscripts, the Vatican has recently digitized a 1,600-year-old edition of Virgil’s Aeneid. Only 76 pages survive what was likely a complete collection of Virgil’s work. Part of…
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A Brief Relationship with Writing
At The Millions, Bryan VanDyke reflects on his experience writing several unpublished novels, and how these manuscripts helped motivate him to write the draft of his first published work in less than a week: My grad school mentor, the brooding and…
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The Art of Memory
It is optimistic in terms of fiction and young adult fiction to propose a world in which there is healing, and in which healing exists, because complete or perfect healing doesn’t exist in the real world. But there is the…
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Notable San Francisco: 8/3–8/9
Wednesday 8/3: Poet Tsering Wangmo Dhompa (Coming Home to Tibet: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Belonging). Free, 7 p.m., Books, Inc. Berkeley. Friends of the San Francisco Public Library present readers who submitted to the city wide poetry contest,…
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A No-Hitter
Not even James Patterson or Stephen King have reached a top-twenty spot with a new book on the New York Times‘s Bestseller list this year. Publishers are blaming mediocre sales of adult fiction on lessened media coverage due to recent acts of…
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Learning to Feel Sorry
For Electric Literature, Adam Vitcavage interviews Swan Huntley about how Huntley’s experience working as a nanny helped her to conceive her debut novel We Could Be Beautiful: What interested me so much about that job was how we, the help—the nannies and the…
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Obviously the Work of Artists
Director Mark Osborne describes to Vulture how he adapted Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince into an animated film: “When you’re reading the book, you’re told over and over again in the text, ‘These drawings aren’t very good,’ and you’re actually being tricked…
