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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
You would not believe the crazy crap that’s happened the last two times I tried to do this column, but I’m back at least for this week. For Rumpus Poetry…
The Big Lie About the Wisconsin Pension Story
Turns out that what Governor Walker is asking public sector workers to do in Wisconsin isn’t contribute more toward their pension–he wants them to take a pay cut. See, the…
Science Saturday
Sulfuric acid doesn’t dissolve a corpse quite as quickly as the mafia claims. From China a fossil of a walking cactus. A frigging walking cactus. Space Shuttle Discovery launched for…
Saturday Morning Links
You know who just got another shipment of authors copies of his debut book of poetry? This guy. Harper Collins tells libraries they can check out e-books 26 times before…
Skating with Beethoven
In 1927, the book The House Without Windows was called “almost unbearably beautiful.” The author, Barbara Follett, was only 13. When Barbara was lonely, the child prodigy would pretend that…
The Writers of the Future
While many wonder about the future of printed books, author Lauren Groff imagines those books’ future writers. In one of her many visions, she tells us, “The writer of the…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Today might be a good day to check out the CIA Museum Flickr feed. When celebrity endorsements are from the past they become way more interesting. For some reason scientists…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
It is a very slow day, so I am opening with a look at an Olympic velodrome arena. We can all agree that it is a bummer that Slash’s guitar…
This is Solidarity
Author V.V. Ganeshananthan reflects on her choice to attend the 2009 Galle Literary Festival in Sri Lanka, just 500 kilometers from violent conflict. Ganeshananthan explains why she “refused to disappear”…
Memory, Reason and Imagination
Books once belonging to Thomas Jefferson, our most bibliophilic president, have turned up at Washington University in St. Louis. The books were part of Jefferson’s retirement library, so-called because he…
Meet the Chana Family
“Coincidentally, Mr Chana is also head of a sect that allows members to take as many wives as he wants.” 1 husband. 39 wives. 94 children. 14-daughters-in-law. 33 grandchildren. The…