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Road-Tripping
What do you look for in a highway? Curves? Covered bridges? Buffalos? This article walks us through the seven U.S. roads “worth building a dream road trip around.” “And finally, the mother of all scenic journeys, the 127 miles of…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Fun fact: a couple years ago scientists found a dodo bird mass grave! (via Atlas Obscura.) Important: Johnny Cash was a pretty great dude. Important: North Korea is awe inspiring and terrifying. Welcome to the vertical zoo. London’s Natural History…
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Listen to This!
In 1958 Ian Fleming and Raymond Chandler discussed each other’s writing in this BBC interview. Being seasoned wordsmiths on the subject, they discuss what makes a British thriller versus an American thriller (apparently “thriller” is an elusive term), heroes and…
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Discussions on Language
“Ugly and pointless new usages appear in the media and drift into everyday conversation: Faze, as in “it doesn’t faze me” Hospitalize, which really is a vile word Wrench for spanner Elevator for lift Rookies for newcomers, who seem to…
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Notable San Francisco: 9/26-10/2
This week in San Francisco! Monday 9/26: Susan Gangel and Kit Kennedy headline 3300 Club’s FREE poetry reading at 7PM. Bottom of the Hill free concert night features blues band Prizehog and local punk act Deep Teens at 9PM (21+).
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Photos: Hemingway’s Letters
“’Gertrude Stein who wrote Three Lives and a number of other good things was here to dinner last night and stayed till mid-night[.] She is about 55 I guess and very large and nice. She is very keen about my…
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New Arthur Conan Doyle
“Conan Doyle sent it to a publisher but it was lost in the post. The book was then reconstructed from memory.” Starting today, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s first novel The Narrative of John Smith is out and ready for reading.…
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Voting before Driving
ABC reports that Saudi Arabian women will be allowed to take part in local elections starting in 2015. “This is in a country where women are subjected to many restrictions, including not being allowed to drive. The United States and…
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Notable New York, This Week 9/26-10/02
This week in New York, louderARTS features poets Nina Corwin and Tara Hardy, John Lithgow on Drama at Barnes & Noble, How I Learned to Survive, Sideshow Goshko, and The New Yorker Festival.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
The positive side of global warming is that sea life is gonna get a lot cuter. Here are some Norwegian lamps. The Youtube videos of our minds (this is amazing, for reals). Avant-garde toys (sorry, MORE avant-garde toys). Famous last…
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Sunday Afternoon Links
I thought I’d mix in some serious reading with the humorous for you: Interesting read in The Stranger on white people, Seattle, racism, and something called the Coalition of Anti-Racist Whites. The Hairpin imagines product placement in the publishing industry.…