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More Seuss!
“The creative vision of author and illustrator Theodor Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, introduced fantastic characters into the imaginations of generations of kids. Now, two decades after his death, a new book, The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories,…
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PR Pitches and Bitches
“We see your picture of Harry Connick Jr. standing near yarn/Tommy Lee Jones using a kleenex/insert-your-weird-pitch-here, and we raise you a picture of Wil Wheaton collating paper.” Accidental and intentional reply-alls. “Fucking bitch” name-calling. This email exchange between The Bloggess…
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“Howl” Anniversary
Allen Ginsberg debuted “Howl” at the Six Gallery Reading on October 7, 1955. In 2006, for the 50th anniversary of the poem’s publication, City Lights came out with Howl on Trial: The Battle for Free Expression and The Believer reflected…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
It’s getting sort of list-y around here. It’s time for 2012’s endangered places, and the winners of this year’s Nikon Small World contest! Mother Jones on cephalopods and political cartoons. These maps are the absolute best thing about today. The…
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Occupy SF Encampment Taken By Police
After an impressive rally of 800 yesterday, police shut down the Occupy SF encampment last night, taking all the supplies the encampment’s residents had rounded up. This seems to me to be a significant misstep from the City of San…
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Litquake Interviews Karen Russell
Litquake talks with Swamplandia author Karen Russell in a final interview before the festival’s kick-off tomorrow! The conversation reveals abhorred writing styles; overused phrases; favorite writers, words and fiction heroes; and more. “I like assigning The Waves and Geek Love…
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Poverty and Sesame Street
“The brilliant team at the Sesame Workshop is using Lily to explain a very complex and heartbreaking problem to young children while showing ways they can help like volunteering for food pantries and donating food to those who may be…
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Hypertext and The Novel
The past decade has ushered in e-books and e-readers, so why did hypertext fiction stall after its initial hype in the 90s? This article investigates that question, building a case for renewed vows between hypertext and novel. “Just as the…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
How did people call each other terrible before Hitler? Perhaps you’d like to look at some solar prominences. The phrase of the week is “speculative polar cartography“. And some good space news! We’ve found three new weird planets, and we…
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The Last Poem I Loved: “A Primer for Small Weird Loves” by Richard Siken
I read Richard Siken’s collection of poems, Crush, in a single afternoon last summer. Lying on my stomach in the sun, I raced through each poem, occasionally lifting my head furtively to check around me for witnesses. His poems, such…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Perhaps you are curious about that Physics Nobel Prize they gave out yesterday. Thank you for this: mid-century sci-fi illustration! While we’re on the subject, perhaps you have wondered what the 1920s version of sites like 50 Watts was. Salvador…