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Where God and the Devil Wheel Like Vultures: Report from El Paso

There’s a story here, but it exists in illogical fragments, chaotic subtexts, and poverty economics cured in the meth-soaked algebra of need, greed and corruption. And eventually it all plays…

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Notable New York, This Week 9/28-10/4

This week in New York, Charles Simic reads, Spin Mag hosts Salman Rushdie, The New York Film Festival opens, Philip Seymour Hoffman stars in Peter Sellars’ production of Othello and…

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Magic Gardens: The Rumpus Interview With Viva Las Vegas

Viva Las Vegas’ saucy new memoir Magic Gardens is about stripping in Portland, Oregon during the 90’s when the “stripping as performance art” trend was taking hold and pro-porn feminism…

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A Special Case of Plagiarism

Earlier today Chris blogged about a guy who’s translating Moby-Dick into emoji. Which reminded me of something. Recently one of our favorite writers, Damion Searls, was pondering a 2007 abridgment…

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Proofs of Concept for Legal Pot Packaging

Print Magazine, anticipating the legalization of pot in the US within 15 years or so, asked four design firms to come up with commercial packaging for marijuana cigarettes. Strømme Throndsen…

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VW’s 2010 Hybrid: Takeoff on a 1993 Sculpture?

Yesterday the Wheels Blog at the New York Times wrote up the new Volkswagen L1 — a prototype for a tiny single-seater that they claim will be the most efficient…

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Alleged Artists Allegedly Using the Allegedly-Stolen Pencils

You remember how Damien Hirst sued a 17-year-old kid, Cartrain, for having used an image of “For The Love of God” in a work, and in revenge, Cartrain pinched some…

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Gorey Stuff

Edward Gorey‘s refrigerator door contained Eclipse coffee syrup, an unopened bottle of mayonnaise, and a couple of High Lifes. Books cluttered his tv room. His license plate read OGDRED. Explore…

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Books, Movies, Magic: The Rediscovered Genius of the Automaton

I recently read “The Invention of Hugo Cabret,” a sort of hybrid graphic-young adult novel by Brian Selznik that tells a fictionalized story revolving around Georges Méliès, the frenchman who…

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Stop Making Sense

An odd ‘un in the Guardian about a new study in this month’s Psychological Science:

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Postcards from Lagos

The other week, Juxtapoz photographer Chris Osburn published a bunch of photos from a recent trip to Nigeria, and he’s calling the series Postcards from Lagos. He reports that Lagos…

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Notable New York, This Week 9/21-9/27

As the New York Bureau Chief, I thought it might be a good idea to round up some notable literary and cultural events going on around New York that I…

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