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Adam Mansbach on Gil Scott-Heron
I’ve been seeing tributes to GSH since the news broke last night, but this one stood out to me for some reason. Here’s a taste. “The fact that drugs took him under – and I don’t mean today, I mean…
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Science Saturday
This has always seemed like “no crap” idea to me, but still…if you’re writing about heath studies, you should probably find out who’s funding those studies in the process. An interview with Hans Fricke, the man who’s spent more time…
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Saturday Morning Links
I’m taking next weekend off to get married. Seth Fischer, who rides herd on this joint some Sundays, is going to fill in for me, for which I am eternally thankful. I’ll try to avoid the temptation to check and…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Here are your illusions for the year. Hey dudes, there is hella water on the moon yo. Good uses of tubes. Avant-garde books are pretty neat! This makes a lot of sense: Apple products inspire religious feelings, like, scientifically.
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How to Promote Your Book
Alina Simone, Eugene Mirman, and Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott have perfected the art of marketing.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
On a similar vein as yesterday: touring the abandoned New Orleans Six Flags. Um, have you guys been following this Area 51 stuff? Here are some pictures. East and West Jam Session 1957 (I want to go to there). East…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Everyone loves owls right? Austrian “conceptual devices.” (via Aqua Velvet.) Airplanes-taking-off-photo porn. Michigan Central Station in ruin 360. (via Gerry Canavan.) Bears vs Lions! (Prehistoric shit is GOING DOWN.)
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Super Hot Prof on Student Word Sex: Jane Roper
Talk me through the class in which we met. Anything you can remember that doesn’t involve how poorly I dressed.
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Book Covers, Gender-Switching
German artist, Daniela Comani, changes the gender on the covers of classic literary works in her current exhibition in an L.A. gallery. Thus The Brothers Karamazov becomes The Sisters Karamazov, and Mrs. Dalloway becomes Mr. Dalloway, etc. The utility of…
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Undergrads Beware
An article in the Atlantic discusses the Washington Post’s graph that charts undergraduate degrees and their expected income levels. The Post’s graph seems pretty deterministic (or maybe it just reflects how trendy it is to plot income level against groups…
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Eugenides Teaser
Jeffrey Eugenides, who has never written a novel that wasn’t well-received, has a new title called The Marriage Plot coming out in October, eight years since everybody first loved Middlesex. October may seem like forever away, but fortunately The Millions…
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VOW’s Forthcoming Title
Voices of Witness, the nonprofit bookseries imprint of McSweeney’s has a new book coming out in July but you can pre-order it now! Patriot Acts: Narrratives of Post-9/11 Injustice compiles the narratives from those afflicted by the slew of injustices…