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John Sayles’ New Film
John Sayles, who just blew our minds with a novel that is both physically and emotionally heavy, directed an indie film called Amigo, which is his 17th film. The movie is about “a village mayor caught in the murderous cross-fire…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
First let’s all take a moment to appreciate the steepest roller coaster in the world. Now then, let’s talk about space! Oh my gosh, look at this comet hit the sun! Astronauts can’t whistle. There are all sorts of places…
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Sugar’s Identity Revealed?
Walter Green, genius designer behind the original Write Like a Motherfucker logo, takes a stab at Sugar’s true identity.
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Listers Listed
Two poets respond to the Morgan Library’s Lists exhibit. Through their exploration of the myriad mediums and styles of listing, they establish, describe, and illustrate four categories of “listers:” crosser-offers, checkers, the iconoclasts and the visual organizers.
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Two Doses of Sugar
The Awl has got a sweet interview with none other than our very own advice columnist, Sugar, who is always ebbing our existential qualms with her eloquence. But what’s it like to be Sugar, negotiating intimacy with anonymity, keeping up…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Poor little guys like this totally (probably) got hit by a meteor. Way to not really be a state North Dakota. Evidently people want to talk about science as art today. OMG space-time cloak! (I’m gladly we’re staying with cloaks…
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Restaurant Jobs
There’s bittersweet news on the job creation growth front—the Wall Street Journal released numbers that described the current state of hiring in this country, which revealed the growth in the food service industry, apparently one tenth of the American labor…
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Pump-up Poetry
How do you pump up before a game? Cheer? Chant? Talk some smack to the rival team? Or…do you read poetry? Bruno Biri, the coach of the French women’s national soccer team, finds his source of inspiration in literature, poetry…
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I’m on a Boat
Fear not, the saddening disappearance of independent bookstores is being countered by literature lovers all over the globe. The Book Barge, brainchild of Sarah Henshaw, is a canal boat turned bookstore that flows leisurely on the UK’s canal network. See…
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Soda Series This Thursday
New Yorkers! This Thursday is doubly excellent for you because not only is it Bastille Day, it’s the next Soda Series event, a reading and conversation series. This event is featuring writers Mary Caponegro, Tim Horvath, and Gary Lutz. Where…
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The Trees The Trees
HTML Giant’s reviewing The Trees The Trees, which is a collection of poems by Heather Christle with twice the title you think it would have, and also not a Terrence Malick movie. The review in it of itself, is impressive…