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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
You guys, baby octopuses you guys. Tangent: octopi doesn’t make any sense, that’s mixing your greek and latin word origins. Let the astronauts have fresh vegetables. Let the astronauts visit galaxies that shouldn’t exist. The competitive designs for the Great…
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Self-published Author Takes On Amazon
After two years of global roaming, Andrew Hyde funded his self-published travel book This Book Is About Travel through the website Kickstarter. His funders indicated their overwhelming preference that his book be available on a Kindle, a sentiment understood and…
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Train Spottings
The strange confluence of affection for both literature and modes of public transportation is highlighted by The New Yorker today, in their post about the website Underground New York Public Library. The website catalogues two types of subjects: people who…
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Interview (in the mail) with Jonathan Richman
SF Weekly got Jonathan Richman to agree to answer some questions—by way of snail mail. Richman, who is gearing up for a show this Sunday at The Make-Out Room, shares his thoughts on the Internet, air-conditioning, and being called the…
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“the allure of those soft, silky nights”
Pablo Medina, author of Cuban City Blues, tells us about his nostalgia for 1950s Havana, restored by Guillermo Cabrera Infante’s novel Tres Tristes Tigres. “The language sizzles and sparkles and reinvents itself so that sound and sense revolve around each…
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Protecting Your Writing From Type-Crimes
Are you unable to shake a nagging feeling that your typeface hasn’t been looking as “crisp and harmonious” as you’d like recently? Does your writing suffer from poor kerning, or a tragic abundance of orphans and widows? Please, consult this…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I’ve been out of town, but I’m back now and I promise that everything will be ok (thanks to everyone who filled in). Everybody, say hello to the newest (very old) mineral: Panguite. Child mugshots of the 1800s. This Google-image-dictionary…
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Erotic Little Women
OR Books will soon publish Fifty Shades of Louisa May: A Memoir of Transcendental Sex, which gives Alcott, who “probably didn’t have much erotica in her life” “a second chance at sex.” “It just hijacks the modern erotica category, throws away the…
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“Heck yes I’m willing to do this, I love peanut butter!”
Have you been searching for a collection of peanut-butter related news to no avail? Look no further: There’s a peanut-butter craving thief on the prowl in Ohio, who comes into a gas station most evenings after midnight and “snatches Reese’s…
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INHERITANCE IN THE AGE OF THE E-BOOK
“Among all the gifts of the electronic age, one of the most paradoxical might be to illuminate something we are beginning to trade away: the particular history, visible and invisible, that can be passed down through the vessel of an…
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FUNNY WOMEN #81: xo, The Intern’s Mom
Gary’s excited to start his week-long internship at Lanson Corp tomorrow! We can’t thank you enough for this opportunity—and for the doors it will open after college.
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Day After Tomorrow
The Tomorrow Magazine team reached their funding goal within five hours of launching a Kickstarter yesterday. Congrats! Tomorrow is continuing to accept donations in order to pay contributors, fund design, travel and web costs, and perhaps be able to go…