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Notable New York, This Week 5/23-5/29
This week in New York the Indie Booksellers Choice Awards at Housing Works; Book Expo America runs all week; Emma Donohue, Room, at powerHouse; book launch parties for Vanessa Hidary, Lynne Tillman, and Vanessa Veselka; two storytelling events: Sideshow Goshko…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Have you read Slate’s fascinating (and relevant) article on what happens when doomsday prophecies fail? You totally should! 70’s Italian collage super cosmic action fun times! Victorian alert: Peter Pan in Kensington Garden and Arthur Conan Doyle tricked by fairies. Most…
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On Dog Ears
Do you dog-ear the pages of your books? Photographer Erica Baum sees dog-eared pages as more than placeholders. In her new book, Dog Ear, she photographed dog-eared pages of mass-market paperbacks, presenting the pages in a new light, as text…
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Writers, Time to Stand Up
“Literature isn’t a 6-year-old dyslexic girl who has to be drilled on the difference between b’s and d’s and p’s and q’s. Literature isn’t weak. It’s strong. It isn’t given. It takes. It isn’t protected. It protects… And, finally, literature…
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Doing the SlutWalk
Not to be confused with the walk of shame: SlutWalks are a rising movement to draw attention to the culture of blaming the victim in sexual assault cases. The first SlutWalk took place in Toronto, organized after this public statement…
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WELCOME TO THE TEN-IN-ONE: The Alligator Man and the Bearded Lovely
What is the Ten-in-One? Just what it sounds like. Ten acts under one tent, for one low, low price. A common configuration of the carnival sideshow. So it’s ten comics, one for each act. An extraordinary collection of freakish curiosities.…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
Take a look at the list of banned words at New York magazine under former editor Kurt Andersen. (via) The Rapture didn’t happen, but Maud Newton’s 40th birthday did. The Guardian has a new Flickr group for bookshelf porn. The…
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First Ever?
According to the Global Kilimanjaro Bowl website, the first ever organized game of American Football has been played on the African continent, between a Mexican team, the CONADEIP All Stars, and the Drake University Bulldogs. There’s no money in it…
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What Happens Post-Rapture?
Vaughan Bell at Slate runs down some history on what happens to doomsday cults and the like when their prophecies about the end of the world don’t come true. It’s an interesting piece because Bell does a good job of…
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Science Saturday
GM is upping its production of Volts because of increased demand. Remember when bailing out GM was going to be a disaster? What will the end of the Space Shuttle mean for scientific experimentation in space? Remember when Gov. Bobby…
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Saturday Morning LInks
So Rapture Day is here. Is anyone missing? I’d make fun of these people, but I can’t top what they’ve done to themselves. Daniel Nester asks what unions have ever done for us. The Mothership has a new home–the Smithsonian’s…