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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Y’all see this Chernobyl street art? The Kingdoms of Science (I live for this stuff). Is it weird to other people that the internet has been around long enough to feel nostalgic about how news sites used to look? (via…
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National Poetry Month, Day 27: “The Accused Terrorist’s Wife” by Shara Lessley
The Accused Terrorist’s Wife The house foreclosed, she’s gone to his father’s home, carting her things, a pair of his shoes, their only daughter, sons. Water springs
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FUNNY WOMEN #52: Literary Classics Summarized as Trashy Romance Novels
I am writing to assure you that I am still very interested in writing back cover copy for eHarlequin.com.
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No New Typewriters
Godrej and Boyce, the only company in the world that was still building typewriters, has closed its last plant.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Snow frogs are a thing. FIRE! Bad news: the last typewriter factory in the world just shut down. Worse news: warm oceans create even more CO2 than we’d thought. Good news: there are pictures on the internets.
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National Poetry Month, Day 26: “In the Rafters at Birdie’s Roadhouse” by Alison Pelegrin
In the Rafters at Birdie’s Roadhouse 504 forever. Hillbilly princess. FDNY. For a good time a hard man is good to find. Got nookie? Life is too short for bad moonshine.
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Notable San Francisco, This Week 4/25-5/01
This week in San Francisco: Million Fishes fixes Monday by bringing you women, come celebrate Paul Madonna’s new book with ALL of us and Happy May Day you weirdos.
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Notable New York, This Week 4/25-5/01
This week in New York the PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature, Cartoonists battle at FISTICUFFS at the 92Y Tribeca, How I Learned It’s Not Me, It’s You (Or Maybe It’s Me), Girls Write Now Chapters Reading with Anna…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Note: don’t get your murders tattooed on your body before you’ve been convicted. DON-8R: if there is a better way to raise money I haven’t seen it. Esoteric Geometry! 50’s spring fashion hurray. Russian kid’s books are also great.
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National Poetry Month, Day 25: “Squirrel” by Paul Lisicky
Squirrel The squirrel is in her little kitchen out by the tennis courts. The ceiling is too low for her, but that’s precisely the point. She wouldn’t want it any other way. How else to bear the peace of it,
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Photos of Children Reenacting Tragedies
Canadian photographer Jonathan Hobin convinced the parents of some very cute kids to allow him to photograph their children reenacting scenes from real-life tragedies, including the September 11th attack on the World Trade Center, the Abu Ghraib prison torture, and…
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Letter to the Editor
“Jess Row…snidely suggests that, for writers of “a certain age — my age . . . born in the 1970s,” Doctorow “is familiar more by reputation than by any direct influence.” Why do those in their 30s think the world…