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Notable New York, This Week 4/25-5/01
This week in New York the PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature, Cartoonists battle at FISTICUFFS at the 92Y Tribeca, How I Learned It’s Not Me, It’s You (Or Maybe It’s Me), Girls Write Now Chapters Reading with Anna…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Note: don’t get your murders tattooed on your body before you’ve been convicted. DON-8R: if there is a better way to raise money I haven’t seen it. Esoteric Geometry! 50’s spring fashion hurray. Russian kid’s books are also great.
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National Poetry Month, Day 25: “Squirrel” by Paul Lisicky
Squirrel The squirrel is in her little kitchen out by the tennis courts. The ceiling is too low for her, but that’s precisely the point. She wouldn’t want it any other way. How else to bear the peace of it,
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Photos of Children Reenacting Tragedies
Canadian photographer Jonathan Hobin convinced the parents of some very cute kids to allow him to photograph their children reenacting scenes from real-life tragedies, including the September 11th attack on the World Trade Center, the Abu Ghraib prison torture, and…
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Letter to the Editor
“Jess Row…snidely suggests that, for writers of “a certain age — my age . . . born in the 1970s,” Doctorow “is familiar more by reputation than by any direct influence.” Why do those in their 30s think the world…
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“I’d never blame anyone for getting feisty”
“The bonus of having a network run through machines is that people can spit and not feel scared, and that both allows a level of ease of discourse that leads fruitfully and to endless rummaging. It’s easy to get caught…
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Elif Batuman Meets Jonathan Franzen
“I told him that I had loved Freedom, which is true and would have been a great ending point for our exchange. So it’s difficult to articulate what possessed me, at a later, boozier point in the dinner, to ask…
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National Poetry Month, Day 24: “Letter to the Right” by Emma Trelles
I hope you never read my poems. / I do not care for the sweet wine you serve / warm from the pantry, or the email you sent / about a savior at the supermarket.
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The Big Poetry Book Giveaway
Every year during National Poetry Month (you knew it was National Poetry Month, right?), Kelli Russell Agodon organizes the Big Poetry Book Giveaway. You may remember Kelli’s name from our very own National Poetry Month project–her poem was featured on…
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Soviet Monuments Look Cool
That’s about all the praise I will ever give the Soviet Union–I’m not a fan of totalitarian regimes, no matter how much they claim to care about well-being of the proletariat. But man, these abandoned Soviet monuments in the former…
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Science Saturday
A discovery might make hydrogen fuel cells much cheaper. There’s a rumor–and that’s all it is–of a Higgs boson sighting. SpaceShip Two completed its longest glide test to date. The Hubble Space Telescope sends the planet a rose on its…