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The Sunday Book Blog Roundup
Greetings and salutations! I’m Michael Berger, today’s guest-editor. I’ve spent my last few days off sipping coffee and drifting through the labyrinth of book blogs. Which was terrific, because most of my work week was spent moving a bookstore. Yes,…
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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
Starting off, I want to thank Jeremy Hatch or subbing in for me last week, both on this column and as Saturday Editor. Great job, dude. Seth Abramson writes a lot about MFA programs and, by extension, the PhD in…
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A Barricade of Books
Yiyun Li in The New Yorker: Despite my rudimentary understanding of the language, most evenings, after lights-out, I would sneak away to the platoon storage room, where I could take a leave from my small miseries—the bullying of the officers,…
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Vogon Poetry
I dare say I’m not the only iPhone owner who’s also a fan of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy–the book, not the film. Smartphones in general seem to be turning into the technology Douglas Adams envisioned all those years…
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Seriously?
Seems to me that the mockery from the general public for having stolen such a bad movie would be enough punishment. Jack Yates, 28, was sentenced to six months in prison today for making an unauthorized pre-release copy of “The…
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Brian’s Saturday Morning Links
Miss me? I expect I’ll be caught up from this move by sometime in mid-July, 2013. Bentham Science Publishers has a credibility problem. I think I saw that movie, almost 20 years ago. Sunspot simulation–the image is, if possible, even…
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An Oral History of Myself #8: Mr. Miller
In 2005 I began interviewing people I grew up with and transcribing the interviews, creating a kind of memoir but in other people’s words. What’s most interesting turns out not so much to be the things we remember differently as…
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The Women of McSweeneys.net
“Why are men, taken on average and as a whole, funnier than women?” inquired Christopher Hitchens in “Why Women Aren’t Funny,” Vanity Fair, January 2007. That’s a good question. And by that I mean, fuck you.
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Austin Heap – Rerouting Iranians on the Web
In the current political crisis in Iran, the boldest tool, turns out to be civic technology. Iran has gone out of its way to block the BBC, Yahoo, mobile phone networks, foreign journalists, Twitter, Facebook and other social networking sites…
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Morning Coffee: Totally Awesome Edition
Summer Starts This Weekend and Today is Friday Have you seen this wind turbine? It is awesome! Did you know that scientists just discovered 12 new species along the Ecuador/Peru border? They are awesome! Dude! Look at these extraordinary clouds!…
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Iran News Links
The Iranian government has made its first move toward some form of dialogue to “defuse the outrage.” Hundreds of thousands rally in Tehran to mourn dead, defying Iran’s supreme leader. Mousavi’s external spokesman, Mohsen Makhmalbaf states, “Ahmadinejad is the Bush…
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9 Words in 1,000 Years
If you’re tired of the frenetic pace of life, being hampered by your 140 character limit, and can’t remember the last time you made it through a book, then you might smile at conceptual artist Jonathan Keats’ new project. He’s…