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This is Solidarity
Author V.V. Ganeshananthan reflects on her choice to attend the 2009 Galle Literary Festival in Sri Lanka, just 500 kilometers from violent conflict. Ganeshananthan explains why she “refused to disappear” despite a boycott of the festival organized by Reporters Without…
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Memory, Reason and Imagination
Books once belonging to Thomas Jefferson, our most bibliophilic president, have turned up at Washington University in St. Louis. The books were part of Jefferson’s retirement library, so-called because he started the collection after donating 6,700 books to the Library…
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Meet the Chana Family
“Coincidentally, Mr Chana is also head of a sect that allows members to take as many wives as he wants.” 1 husband. 39 wives. 94 children. 14-daughters-in-law. 33 grandchildren. The Daily Mail profiles the world’s biggest family, photos included. (via…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Photo Opportunities makes pictures out of thousands of snap shots of tourist destinations. It is pretty cool. In Russia, weddings photos take YOU! (I am not actually old enough to make Yakov Smirnoff jokes, I’m sorry.) Mind controlled cars are…
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Sometimes Depression is a Terminal Illness: Talking to a Teenager About Suicide
I’ll always remember that late afternoon I spent sitting across from a bright and talented young man in a psychiatric hospital’s group room. Half of his face was boyishly handsome. The other half was scarred from a car crash that…
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“Why Save PBS?”
Chris Bishop (who, full disclosure, is a PBS KIDS Creative Director) makes the case for saving PBS, infograph-style. (via TheMillions)
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Steve Almond Joins the Party
As you most likely already know we’re throwing a rocking book release party for our pal Wesley Stace (also known as musician extraordinaire John Wesley Harding) in San Francisco this Sunday, February 27th, at Amnesia. What you don’t know, but…
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Wisconsin Gov. Walker’s War on Labor
The showdown continues in Wisconsin pitting public-sector labor unions against Republican governor Scott Walker, who aims to eviscerate collective bargaining rights. As of this writing the state’s Democratic lawmakers apparently are still MIA. Days of large protests in Madison and…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I know this isn’t the point, but I can’t stop thinking about how cute these fat monkeys are. Psychedelic Don Quixote illustrations. Abandoned World War 2 bunkers are sort of great sometimes. Let’s talk about Neanderthal fashion. And now for…
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THE BLURB #21: This Is Your Brain—on Books, on Screens
After just five hundred years of movable type and the Enlightenment it begat, we are blinded by how brief our dwelling in the kingdom of print turned out to be.
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 2/21-2/27
This week in San Francisco, RADAR at The Luggage Store, Noise Pop loves Litquake, and John Wesley Harding performs at the launch of Wesley Stace’s new novel. Monday 2/21: Support San Francisco State University’s College of Creative Arts at One…