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Dan WEiss’s Morning Coffee
Long story short: most of our ancestors boned neanderthals, case closed. Anyone want to go to an underwater museum with me? Viva Mexican Modernismo! I bet it gets kind of tedious, all that whimsy. Holy cow volcanoes are exciting!
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This Year’s Caine Prize
Contemporary African fiction is celebrated with the Caine Prize, awarded to the best African short story written in English. This year’s prize went to a Zimbabwean writer named NoViolet Bulawayo whose story, “Hitting Budapest,” which describes hunger with a Márquez-ian…
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Notable New York, This Week 7/18-7/24
This week in New York A Public Space presents a reading with contributor Robert Sullivan, Brando Skyhorse and friends read at KGB Bar, a reading by Finishing Line Press poets at Cornelia Street Café, Nerd Jeopardy at McNally Jackson, Moth…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Monday, time to look at pictures of domesticated and/or two headed animals. Also hermit crabs in see-through shells. Perhaps after Neptune’s birthday last week, you are wondering when to celebrate the other planets‘. This is what bugs used to look…
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Here Are Some Stories I Like
Here are links to some very short fiction that made my day better. This week, for some reason, they all have to do with critters. Enjoy! “I was sixteen when I saw my first, standing stock-still and straight upright, like…
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Blake Butler on Submissions
At The Awl, Blake Butler has let us in on a little secret: he’s posted a spreadsheet with every piece of writing he’s submitted from 2006 to 2008. It’s an impressively long list that includes where the piece(s) were submitted…
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No Tell Motel is Shutting Down
Brian here, taking a break from unloading and unpacking and sweating (94 degrees? I thought I left Florida!) to post this sad news about No Tell Motel, the online magazine that is going to cease publication this October. No Tell…
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What is Culture?
“Culture is anti-rivalrous. The more people know and sing a song, the more cultural value it has. The more people watch my film Sita Sings the Blues, or read my comic strip Mimi & Eunice, the happier I’ll be, so…
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The California Milk Board Has the Cure for PMS
“Milk can help reduce the symptoms of PMS,” says the new “Got Milk” ads by the California Milk Processor Board. Instead of targeting their ads to women (aka actual PMS sufferers), the board created an “Everything I Do is Wrong”…
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Science Saturday
Jello made from humans? So, maybe you don’t need to force yourself to drink those eight glasses of water a day. What can baboon males teach us about human males? (Or, what we probably could have guessed about men from…
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Saturday Morning Links
Good morning! I’m covering for Brian Spears today, who’s probably unpacking boxes in his new home (or sleeping) as you’re reading these links. Read this feature in The Stranger because it’s beautiful and the title is pretty friggin’ amazing: “My…