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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I have to admit these bitter Borders songs are pretty great. 1,000 Polish book covers (a selection). 50 Watts has kindly rounded up a month’s worth of exceptional posts on…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Lakes used to be THE place to be. Roger Ebert’s TED talk makes me feel worthwhile for spending my day on the internet. Llama font makes me feel really guilty…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
There is maybe a vague theme today. As global temperatures rise, this may be a good time to think about the future of Antarctica. Let’s all check out this flapper’s…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
What happens when a space shuttle is retired? (It gives me good reason to link to pictures from the NASA archives is what.) Fun fact: the Peabody museum is a…
A Friendly Gathering in San Francisco (Tonight!)
The Rumpus and ZYZZYVA Proudly Present: “A Friendly Gathering” That’s right. On April 11th (tonigh!), 7pm at the The Make-Out Room, we’re teaming up with ZYZZYVA to throw a party…
Notable New York, This Week 4/11-4/17
This week in New York The Franklin Park Reading Series; Poets Mark Doty, Kathleen Graber, and Patricia Smith at Housing Works; Sex Worker Literati at Bowery Poetry Club; Neil Gaiman…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
The god who demands you make this is a god I can get behind. South Koreans have some rad ideas about bike storage innovation. What it took to get into…
Kids’ Books as Adult Personality Predictors
If you liked Little Women as a kid: “Family may be the most important thing to you, but that wouldn’t stop you from stealing your sister’s ex boyfriend.” —Flavorwire’s write-up…
Poetic Lives Online
I hope you’ve been following along with our National Poetry Month project. For links to the poems we’ve already run as well as the poets to come, you can follow…
Science Saturday
I don’t usually post book reviews in this column, but hey, this seems relevant (and a way to test out the NY Times pay-wall workaround). How evolution explains altruism. The…