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Dear Sugar Coming Soon!
For those of you who are feeling the lack of sweet counseling normally provided on Thursdays afternoons, please hold off one more day! Dear Sugar #77 will be coming your way tomorrow morning. These saccharine archives will calm your Sugar…
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Franzen’s Comin’ Over
When you’re playing host for your literary idol, there is a lot of opportunity for panic and embarrassment. Wendy MacLeod recounts Jonathan Franzen’s visit to Kenyon, recalling her anticipatory anxieties, how to avoid sending out stalker-ish vibes, and what it’s…
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Broke-Ass Stuart’s Goddamn Television Show
It all started with a zine, then some Lonely Planet travel guides, a book deal via Craigslist, the goddamn website,
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I hope you guys are ready for hella space garbage next week. 100 plus years of Olympic posters (are neat). In the future we will all drive around in electric diwheels. You know what else is cool? Dutch mystery novel…
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Love for Feministing
Feministing, the esteemed online feminist community, highlighted our very own Elissa Bassist’s interview with sex-positive feminist Susie Bright (which is still very smart and very funny, if you haven’t dabbled yet). Thanks for the shout-out, Feministing. The love is mutual!
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Philip K. Dick: “Ignore the bad patches, just keep reading”
Explore the many different ways of reading and understanding the writings of Philip K. Dick, particularly the unsettling yet enticing allure of his “unquotable prose”.
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Monetary Support for Indie Bookstores
Anybody who appreciates the community value of their local independent bookstore knows about the monetary pressure imposed by Amazon and internet-based competitors. So if you really appreciate the value of independent booksellers and the literary community it supports, why shouldn’t…
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Regarding John Ross’ Ashes: A Very Specific Request
Let’s collectively remember John Ross, a “relentless political and literary experimenter” with revolutionary tendencies. Best known for his book Murdered by Capitalism and his coverage of the Zapatistas movement in Mexico, where he spent a significant portion of his life,…
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“Take Me Home”
We are proud to announce our midsummer monthly event, “Take Me Home.” July’s event features spoken word performer Rich Ferguson and brilliant authors Meg Day, Alexandra Teague, and Jesse Ball. We’ll supply the humor fix with the comedy stylings of…
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Where I Write #12: A Stable in the Floodplain
Across the Missouri River from North Omaha, just east of the intersection of Interstates 29 and 680, a few miles
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Life as an Undocumented Immigrant
Jose Antonio Vargas considers his life as an undocumented immigrant in the NY Times Magazine, tracing back his entrance into the US as a twelve year-old, to his college graduation and career as a journalist. Though America is the country…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Some photo-essays to get you through the midweek: Communist May Days of the 50s and 60s, and the South Central States. The Clash Project is pretty neat. The highest electrical current IN THE UNIVERSE. Aw heck, how about another one?…