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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Poor little guys like this totally (probably) got hit by a meteor. Way to not really be a state North Dakota. Evidently people want to talk about science as art today. OMG space-time cloak! (I’m gladly we’re staying with cloaks…
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Restaurant Jobs
There’s bittersweet news on the job creation growth front—the Wall Street Journal released numbers that described the current state of hiring in this country, which revealed the growth in the food service industry, apparently one tenth of the American labor…
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Pump-up Poetry
How do you pump up before a game? Cheer? Chant? Talk some smack to the rival team? Or…do you read poetry? Bruno Biri, the coach of the French women’s national soccer team, finds his source of inspiration in literature, poetry…
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I’m on a Boat
Fear not, the saddening disappearance of independent bookstores is being countered by literature lovers all over the globe. The Book Barge, brainchild of Sarah Henshaw, is a canal boat turned bookstore that flows leisurely on the UK’s canal network. See…
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Where I Write #13: To Walk Among Coyotes
I moved to Los Angeles a few weeks ago to house-sit for the summer. I drive a borrowed car and have a meager savings. The house is near the Hollywood sign, in the hills,
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Soda Series This Thursday
New Yorkers! This Thursday is doubly excellent for you because not only is it Bastille Day, it’s the next Soda Series event, a reading and conversation series. This event is featuring writers Mary Caponegro, Tim Horvath, and Gary Lutz. Where…
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The Trees The Trees
HTML Giant’s reviewing The Trees The Trees, which is a collection of poems by Heather Christle with twice the title you think it would have, and also not a Terrence Malick movie. The review in it of itself, is impressive…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Y’all see this photo-essay on modern day Bowery tenements? Welcome to the world hermaphroditic butterfly! Brief histories of monsters and title design. Hella space pictures.
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SPE, Revisited
“Forty years later, the Stanford Prison Experiment remains among the most notable—and notorious—research projects ever carried out at the University. For six days, half the study’s participants endured cruel and dehumanizing abuse at the hands of their peers. At various…
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Milk Just Got Offensive
Uh oh—here is the latest reason to be offended by normative gender divisions. The California Milk Processor Board has a new advertising campaign that focuses on the milk’s ability to alleviate PMS symptoms because of its vitamin D and calcium…
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Look At How Much Fun We’re Having!
“Take Me Home,” the midsummer monthly Rumpus event, happened last night. Just to recap, it was a phantasmagoria of poetry, comedy, music and a lot of emotion. Thanks to all who made it out! Here is some photo documentation as…
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Who is Ana Mendieta?
Today, in Book Review, John Reed reviews Who is Ana Mendieta? a new graphic novel about the life and tragic death of the feminist artist. Read the review.