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The Last Poem I Loved: “Hardware Store in a Town Without Men” by Laura Kasischke
It feels strange to claim that “Hardware Store on a Town Without Men” is the last poem I loved, since I have loved it for some time now. A fairer term would be to call it The Last Poem I…
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Murakami on Nuclear Power
Novelist Haruki Murakami critiqued Japan’s reliance on nuclear energy in his International Catalunya prize acceptance speech. He explained the government’s use of nuclear power as a nearsighted decision, solely based on convenience and efficiency. “’We must not be afraid to…
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Notable New York, This Week 6/13-6/19
This week in New York a book party for late Chilean author Roberto Bolaño at Galapagos Art Space; and another book party for Go the F**k to Sleep at the New York Public Library; Elizabeth Nunez and Tiphanie Yanique in…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Things I would do if I was very rich: buy a flying yacht, eat all my meals under water. My favorite part of this is that spacesuits are currently being held in a town called “Suitland”. Caribbean Nature (it has…
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Where I Write #11: A Table Meant For Dining
There is a corkboard here. On it, there is a paper doll of L., a friend from my grad school days. The doll features a pixie haircut, a polka-dot blouse, a pair of men’s pants.
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Sunday Afternoon Links
Do you have what it takes to join “The World’s Most Exclusive Website“? Can you spot the change? “I think of my portraits as a cultural intervention – “before” pictures lovingly drawn and painted, meditative descriptions of specific bodies that…
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Facebook’s Influence on Writing
“Facebook presents far more danger than the cultivation of lowercase first-person ‘i’s and emoticons :). The real threat posed by Facebook is not that it ruins writers’ ability to punctuate or encourages them to replace words with pictures. The problem…
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How Much is Your Body Worth?
“I weigh just a little under two hundred pounds, have brown hair, blue eyes, and a full set of teeth. As far as I know, my thyroid gland pumps the right hormones into the twelve pints of blood that circulate…
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More Face-Palm
If you’re in Tennessee, you probably want to stop using the internet right now, especially if you were thinking about posting, or even sending some manner of image, because you’re facing fines and potentially jail time. According to Engadget, “anyone…
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Bicycling While Skirted
I think this belongs in the “don’t you have more important stuff to worry about, Officer” category, but I’m willing to entertain other category suggestions as well. Jasmijn Rijcken is the general manager of the VANMOOF Bicycle Company, and while…
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Science Saturday
I’ve long thought that smartphones were the early models of the Star Trek tricorder. Well, the iPhone is going to space and will measure, among other things, spacecraft radiation levels. Tevatron might not have seen a new particle after all.…