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Chats with Random Men #15: Fakhir
Alina Simone becomes the target of a globe-encompassing beam of love in this edition of Chats with Random Men.
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The First ?
Does anyone else think the question mark is the most beautiful of all punctuation marks? Well, the very first question mark may have looked more like a colon. Discovered in Syriac manuscripts of the Bible from the fifth century, the…
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The Google Effect
This might seem obvious to many, but apparently there is now research behind the idea that smart phones, computers and the Internet are weakening our memories. According to this article, the phenomena is called the “Google effect” (which you can…
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80s Difference
Looking back at 80s media, this video curated essay examines the meaning of difference in Miami Vice, Pretty in Pink, and Ferris Bueller, through the lens of author Mash Tupitsyn’s own coming of age. Reflecting on her motivations for identifying…
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The Last Poet I Loved: Dolores Dorantes
I was at a writer’s conference in San Miguel de Allende when a classmate first introduced me to the work of Mexican poet Dolores Dorantes. All month long my class had been required to introduce each other to new poetry…
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A Literary Bone Hunt
Ever wonder what happened to author of Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes’ bones? So have a bunch of historians and archaeologists. They’ve been trying to track them down, hoping to reveal whether there is any veracity in the rumors that…
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That’s Gross
Some things automatically disgust us, while others are learned triggered from an emotional experience. Salon.com is dabbling in some neuroscience, speaking with Daniel Kelly who is an assistant professor at Purdue University and the author of, Yuck!: The Nature and…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
It’s important to remember sometimes that basically we don’t know anything. Say hi to our little asteroid buddy. The solution to all our transit woes is SLIDES. It’s always a good day to rethink about what killed the dinosaurs.
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Look Out For Goode’s New Novel
Rumpus contributor Laura Goode, (the most recent contribution being “Albums of Our Lives: Amy Winehouse’s Back to Black”), has just published her first novel. Kudos! Sister Mischief, in which a “gay suburban hip-hopper freaks out her Christian high school–and falls…
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“Notes Toward a Suicide Letter”
Reflecting, reminiscing, wondering, asking. Jimmy Chen’s beautifully personal essay on HTML Giant, “Notes Toward a Suicide Letter”, explores suicide from multiple standpoints. Whether writing about a loved one or Kurt Cobain or Ernest Hemingway, Chen finds a way to express…
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Forgiveness is Priceless
This one goes out to all those young delinquent readers who live in guilt-ridden fear of the public library. That is, if you are one of the 143,000 kids who have been banned from the NY Public Library due to…
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WHERE I WRITE #14: A Green Room in Gujarat
The wall in front of the desk is a greenish turquoise. The painters came and finished the whole flat in just a few hours, and you can see where the paint-soaked rag dripped a little.