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Science Saturday
Lovely photos of the Necklace Nebula. Some building blocks of DNA look like they originated in space. If you hear someone claim global warming violates the laws of physics (and that won’t be the weirdest claim, I’ll bet), here’s what…
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Saturday Morning Links
Brian here, blogging one-handed since ninjas tripped me Thursday and fractured my radial head (which sounds like what would happen if a particularly famous band where to talk about breaking up). I’ll try to keep it from slowing me down.…
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Writers from an Editor’s Perspective
Dinty W. Moore, an editor at Brevity and the anthology Best Creative Nonfiction, is interviewed by Matador Notebook on writers. He makes some interesting and useful points about the ever-branching taxonomy of specialized writers: “But when these labels become barbed-wire…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
If you don’t use these words, they’re gonna go bad. Get super intimate with the moon. Where’d this guy get a million circuit boards? Baby boomers have their own texting lingo!
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Spoiled Stories
Do you want someone to come along and spoil that short-story you’re about to begin? Yes you do, says this study. The “Hedonic Ratings of Spoiled & Unspoiled Stories” chart, compiled by U.C. San Diego researchers, addresses three distinct genres—ironic…
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A History of Gun Control
One of the Longreads selections from the past week is this article in the Atlantic on gun control and the ambiguity of the second amendment’s language. This story doesn’t just divide into a two-sided argument over the right to bear…
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Postponing/Anticipation
Due to second thoughts about preserving the anonymity of one of Sugar’s advice seekers, Dear Sugar will run a little later than expected. (As Sugar put it on twitter: “Oy. Last minute switch up: the person who wrote the letter…
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The Last Poem I Loved: “Nice” by Marianne Boruch
I love a poem that understands me. Most of the time, when I’m not reading poetry to inspire my own work, I read it as a reminder to appreciate the world, or some small space within it. Some days, I…
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On Advice and Sugar’s Anonymity
As linked to earlier today, Sugar, our favorite weekly advice columnist, got written up in The New Republic. Ruth Franklin recognizes the dedicated band of followers that depend on their weekly Sugar fix, and calls her “the ultimate advice columnist…
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Rumpus Folks Get Some Love
You should check out We Who Are About To Die’s interview with Rumpus Music Editor Katy Henriksen where she talks about trying to balance writing and parenthood. And Ruth Franklin at The New Republic wrote a really nice piece on…
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Save the Poe House!
The Edgar Allan Poe home in Baltimore is, unfortunately, lacking the financial means to stay afloat. Poe lived there in his last years of life, and Baltimore is of major site-specific importance to his writerly development. Thus, this city landmark…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Oh man, literary rejection just got organized into a wiki. Speaking of literary rejection, uncreative writing is free and ready to read! I hope your coworkers are nice to you. They’re not logos, they’re fauxgos.