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‘Third Gender’ Caveman Discovered
Archaeologists digging in a 5,000 year old grave have found a “third gender” caveman. The man was buried in the style of a woman, and because of the culture’s strict adherence to their burial laws, it is assumed that he…
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Creating Your Own Drama
Reexamining Romeo and Juliet is realizing that you, as a reader, are part of the drama. This HTML giant essay considers how we complicate our lives and thereby, create a much more romantic conception of ourselves. “[We] create our own…
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120 Characters, 1000 Words
A text messaging punctuation choice speaks a thousand words. Texts are rife with innuendo. Comedy writer, Sam Greenspan attempts to deconstruct those subtleties to help you interpret your cellular interactions. (via @BookBench)
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Considering the Short Story
For all the short story readers and writers out there—this Millions essay considers the ups and downs of short story publishing and their synchronistic decline with the mass market magazine readership. There are some illuminating stats on Americans’ short story…
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McSweeeney’s For Minis
McSweeney’s is expanding evermore, this time to include a readership of youngsters and their literary-minded parents. This month they are coming out with McMullens, their children’s book imprint, set to publish around 12 books a year. In true McSweeney’s form,…
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Burns Gets Burned
Remember all those VHS tapes that added up to a compendium of everlasting Civil War knowledge? It turns out Ken Burns’ Civil War documentary series isn’t entirely accurate, but in fact, “deeply misleading and reductive.” This may feel like a…
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Do Not Screen
A found 16 mm film, chopped up. In color, silent, probably from the late 1940s. A warning (or invitation?) to “do not screen.” A unique activation code to bring the bring the film to life, fragment by fragment. This is…
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E.B. White and his Animals
E.B. White’s anthropomorphisms became childhood story staples, but they were also were a method of expressing himself to his family, and furthermore, significant in the evolution of nature writing. This essay in the Chronicle Review considers E.B. White’s relationship with…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Facebook is giving you the sads. This week in new iconic space pictures. Behold the first living wall painting. 60s and 70s French magazine covers will always make me happy. GE wants to show you some of Edison’s forgotten inventions.
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J. Donald Walsh, Jr: A Tribute
When Jeff Van Gundy, the Knicks’ scrappy underdog coach, resigned mid-season in 2001, he cited the loss of his college roommate in the World Trade Center attack as a primary factor. My morning commute at the time took me beneath…
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To the Lighthouse Again
Helen Dunmore wrote the beautiful new introduction to Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse, published online by Granta, in conjunction with their latest, feminism-themed issue, The F-Word. The beginning of summer and the new intro are both reasons to revisit this…
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More Holiday Excitement
Harmony Holiday, the poet pick for this month’s Rumpus Poetry Book selection, was featured in the Boston Review for National Poetry Month, this past April. There are multi-sensory ways to experience her poetry and thus more reasons to get excited…