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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
It’s election day and we’ll be taking today and tomorrow off over here at DWMC, because how could anyone possibly concentrate on anything at all? Good luck out there. Please vote, please don’t vote for the racist. Whatever happens we’ve got…
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Superman Is a Bad Translation
For Slate, Shon Arieh-Lerer and Daniel Hubbard provide a video rundown of pop culture’s use of Nietzsche, starting with contemporaneous forces made his philosophy be mangled by Nazi power and ending with True Detective and Kanye.
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Saeed Jones Lights up Different Forms of Humanity
For Brooklyn Magazine, Molly McArdle profiles poet, essayist, and BuzzFeed Literary Editor Saeed Jones. McArdle solicits Jones’s thoughts on diversity in media and describes him as a “literary citizen” for his work with BuzzFeed’s Reader vertical and the Emerging Writers’ Fellowship program.…
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R.L. Stine Takes to Reddit and Tells All
90s kids probably remember Goosebumps, the popular series of children’s horror novellas that put kid protagonists in all manner of spooky situations. Author R.L. Stine took to Reddit for an AMA last week, holding forth on questions like “Do you write…
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World Scheduled to End This Weekend
And it’s funny—people bring up the fact that Black Wave starts out as memoir and turns into fiction, but… isn’t that what fiction is? Over at BOMB, Sara Jaffe sat down with Michelle Tea, author of Black Wave, to talk…
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Notable Los Angeles: 11/7–11/13
Monday 11/7: Brendan Constantine hosts Industrial Poetry: Generative Writing Workshop. $30 per poet, walk-ins welcome or RSVP at BrendanWorkshops@gmail.com. 6 p.m. at Chevalier’s Books. Alice Hoffman, in conversation with Lisa See, discusses and signs Faithful. 7 p.m. at Vroman’s Bookstore.…
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup
First, in Saturday Rumpus Poetry, Connie Voisine shares three new poems. Body shaming is the subject of “Shameful,” in which the speaker considers modeling herself after someone else, “like a person on TV,” but she only watches English programs “where actors…
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Aziz Nesin’s Ghost
This week, the Turkish government has jailed a prominent politician who is referred to fondly as “Kurdish Obama” and shutdown Cumhuriyet, a popular newspaper. Amid these distressing developments, Kaya Genç looks towards books and history in her profile of 20th century…
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Contentious Comic BFFs
You may have missed Matt Groening and Lynda Barry in Sydney this past weekend, but never fear: over at the Guardian, you can still read about their lifelong friendship, which persists despite diverging paths. Groening is best known for The…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Don’t worry, the Canadian army will get to the bottom of that pinging sound. But, like, why have time zones at all? Claude Parent’s rebel architecture. How about some apocalyptic architecture too? Today in headlines from the future (the future…
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Notable Twin Cities: 11/6–11/12
Sunday 11/6: Cello, poetry, and a Sunday afternoon. If this sounds like you, head over to Quinn Violins for a poetry reading in a music store. Michael Kiesow Moore, Ardie Medina, and Thomas R. Smith will read, accompanied by the…
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Notable NYC: 11/5–11/11
Saturday 11/5: Emily Stokes, Lisa Lucas, Ann Goldstein, Summer Brennan, Stacey D’Erasmo, and moderator Michael Reynolds have Ferrante Fever. BookCourt, 7 p.m., free. Ari Banais and Wo Chan join the Segue Series. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m., $5. Marlena Chertock, Stephanie…