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The Atlantic Summer Fiction Issue is OUT
The esteemed Atlantic Summer Fiction Issue 2011 has been parceled out in installments for a little while now, but now you can finally enjoy the issue in its entirety. Today, all of the stories are available to read right here.…
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Jennifer Egan Has Things To Do
The most recent fiction Pulitzer Prize winner Jennifer Egan’s got a new piece in the Guardian’s Short Story Summer Special. Check it out.
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Remembering Black Panther History
David Hilliard, the original Chief of Staff of the Black Panther Party can walk you through the historically significant sites of Black Panther Party activity in Oakland. He recounts the former congregation spots and the practical programs they implemented—the free…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Here are some things involving the Milky Way. Are you very afraid of small clusters of holes? Aren’t we all? Perhaps we’ve been thinking about cancer all wrong. Soviet movie posters: also pretty neat. Who wants to go explore a…
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“Why Don’t You Get a Job, Germ?”
Another Hunter S. Thompson correspondence has come to light. This time: a rejection letter. It is chock full off disdain and aggression that will no doubt make you curious about the original piece, which was sent to Rolling Stone in…
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Drones Revealed
The art exhibition “Gaming in Waziristan,” in progress at London’s Beaconsfield Gallery, includes previously unseen photographs of post-drone strike moments in North Waziristan, along with 3D animation and moving images. The project seeks to interrogate structures of power, the war…
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Architecture Fiction
Founded in 2010, in New Orleans, The Hypothetical Development Organization, creates fictional futures for vacant, abandoned buildings or “implausible futures for unpopular places.” To learn more about this visual urban storytelling and the idea of architecture fiction head over to this…
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How Well Do You Know Truman Capote?
Truman Capote’s social celebrity is a defining feature of his legacy—it added another element to his literary prowess and his visible lifestyle was definitely a point of contention for people. Many people had things to say about his lifestyle, and…
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Reading For Money
Literary festivals are blowing up (at least in the UK), as evidenced by the new festivals that popped up this year alone, even though it’s increasingly difficult to get sponsors and funders in these times. To get the funds flowing…
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New School
Wired’s got an article on technologically-informed education—Khan Academy, an educational website in which, “Students, or anyone interested enough to surf by, can watch some 2,400 videos in which the site’s founder, Salman Khan, chattily discusses principles of math, science, and…
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Dyer’s “Reading Life”
If you haven’t heard by now, we are at the precipice of Geoff Dyer’s latest venture in the New York Times, a weekly column for the Book Review called, “Reading Life.” Thus we will all be in touch with his…
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Writing Frenzies and their Social Effects
Maud Newton has some relatable writing pains that she’s been ruminating on. It can take forced isolation and sometimes jail time to produce tangible, significant results. This is the kind of isolation that can make the public realm difficult and…