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Is Writing Therapy?
“Writing for an audience is about narration and structure and voice; it’s about the situation and the story. It’s not about how good or bad things are in your own psyche. It’s not about airing your dirty laundry, and it’s…
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Authors Insulting Bill
“For Bill—You douche bag, you think you can emotionally manipulate me, a very nice person, into insulting you, by appealing to my niceness? Fuck you, Bill. You were right. Fuck you, dude. <3” —Karen Russell, author of Swamplandia, in response…
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The Rumpus and Social Networks
Want to keep up with The Rumpus when you’re elsewhere on the internets? I know, you don’t admit to going anywhere else, and we don’t blame you, but if you want to get a taste of The Rumpus somewhere other…
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Science Saturday
A new phase of matter? The study that led to the public pressure that made Craigslist shut down its adult services section is apparently really bad science. The RHIC generates the largest antinucleus ever. A submarine with tank treads. Why…
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Saturday Morning Links
Seemingly out of nowhere, a couple of pieces on The Wire, probably my favorite television show ever. The first is in The Threepenny Review, by W. S. DiPiero, a piece called “Who Shot Snot?” The second, by way of Hannah…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
We should have linked to this yesterday, but it’s never too late to look at Houdini’s prop list. Everyone needs some microscopic insect photography from time to time. On the comparative size of islands and lakes in the Western Hemisphere.…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Sometimes when I am trying to find links I just end up reading long boring essays about Disneyland attractions and chairs, this is the life of the internet scavenger. Dear everyone: please take me out for a dinner in the…
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Sad Stuff on the Street
Sad Stuff on the Street is exactly it sounds like, pictures of sad stuff (like the broken rainbow umbrella above) on the street. Started by Greg Larson and Sloane Crosley (a short back-story of the site can be found here,…
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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Roundup
Today marks the one-year anniversary of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; as a person partaking in the national Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan that was implemented as part of the package, I see today as a day to celebrate.…
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“An Amazing Tale of Survival”
Dana Albarella James tells the story of her “life without a cell phone.”
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Mid-century modern stained glass? Yes thanks. While we are on the subject, Christian Annyas has determined the average life-span of a Saul Bass logo. (via Letters of Note.) This light organ is pretty cool, you know? 50 Watts on “the…