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F**king Sleep at the Library
“Motherfuckers are e-mailing me from China and shit,” Adam Mansbach said last night at the book launch party for his popular new bedtime story for parents, Go the Fuck to Sleep, held at the New York Public Library. Mansbach told…
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Social Scientist in the City
Evolutionary biologist David Sloan Wilson applies Darwinian theory to an urban landscape, in order to help improve Binghamton, New York. A city is the perfect subject for studying social dynamics among people, applying his research of evolutionary social traits to…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Things you can do with abandoned nuclear plants: turn them into amusement parks! Today is a good day to check out pictures of Soviet Moscow int he 30s and 40s because that is true everyday. A lovely look at the…
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Summer Reading Fun
Want to be on the same literary wavelength as a Pulitzer prize winning author this summer? Consciously planning your summer reading synchronicity with Jeffrey Eugenides is fun. So is hiking in the Alps, but there are more barriers to accomplishing…
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FUNNY WOMEN #55: Facebook Giveth and It Taketh Away
I have so many friends. So many! 379, to be exact, although the number keeps fluctuating up and down by 1. Someone, or more than one someones, must be defriending me and then refriending me every few days.
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Choosing Words Carefully
The Millions posted an essay on the eternal writer’s dilemma to craft the perfect book and the elusive nature of perfectionism. For writers, readers or anybody with compulsive tendencies, choosing to dedicate time to a book is a difficult decision.…
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More Spears Style Appreciation
Another shout-out to Rumpus’ poetry editor Brian Spears for his post “A Note to My Fellow White Males,” appeared today on Slate. The editor of Lez Get Real, a site with “A Gay Girls’ View on the World,” was revealed…
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Literary Feudin’
Writers can throw around some contentious words, and sometimes these words erupt in a literary feud. Christopher Hitchens, a mastermind literary feudist himself, discusses the history of literary quarrelling, and the modern resources (like Twitter) that have refined the art…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Maybe the key to finding the next big thing is teen brain scans. Pastoral poetry, space travel, the industrial military complex, all rendered in a soft folk-psych style. Here is your food porn for the day. Hey dudes, let’s all…
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Rushdie Writes for TV
Salman Rushdie is applying his story-telling skills to a new medium, signing up to do a sci-fi-ish television series, affirming his belief that TV maximizes communication because of its wide appeal. His new work will be called “The Next People.”
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Brian Spears on Jezebel
Big thanks to Jezebel for re-running our very own Brian Spears’ post, “A Note to My Fellow White Males Regarding a Gay Girl In Damascus.” We always appreciate the appreciation!
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What’s in a (pseudo)Name
Carmela Ciuraru finds a great many reasons for writing under a pseudonym– taking under analysis a reasonable desire to separate a personal from a public persona, living out a fantasy ego-and taking note that fewer authors choose to use them.…