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New Library in Brooklyn Vaguely Resembles Literary Wet Dream

Mellow Pages Library, a library and reading room in Brooklyn consisting primarily of publications from small publishing houses, opened its doors earlier this year. Founded by Matt Nelson and Jacob…

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Jonathan Safran Foer on the Sociopsychological Effects of Technology

In an opinion piece for the New York Times, Jonathan Safran Foer (award-winning author of Everything is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close) contemplates the implications of living in a…

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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee

Dang weird clouds are getting more and more common. Yes, we have discovered a new body part. Behold the first known fluorescent vertebrate (that you totally were already familiar with).…

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Poems with Some Spine

Nina Katchadourian makes curious and compelling art in a variety of different mediums, but perhaps her most interesting project—to book nerds, at least—is Sorted Books, an ongoing series of photographs…

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“I Stand on the Street and Observe and Draw”

When I was little I had this drawing workbook that I would use after school. On the front of it was a picture of a little kid, my age at…

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F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood

In light of the new Hollywood rendition of The Great Gatsby, Jillian Goodman takes a look at F. Scott Fitzgerald’s relationship with Hollywood during his lifetime. How was his writing affected…

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What Artist is the Focus of Your Unconditional Affection?

A few days ago, writer Teju Cole posed a question to his Twitter followers: “One living writer or musician as the focus of your unconditional affection. Someone all of whose…

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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee

Cheetahs ain’t so fast (they are still very fast). Here are some photographs of moths for you. Jackson Pollack: unknowing cold war warrior. Futurist domes march into the sea. Today…

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“I’m Totally Powerless in the Face of Men”

23-year-old Marie Calloway, a Rumpus interviewee and Letters in the Mail contributor, became an Internet sensation in late 2011 with “Adrien Brody,” her account of meeting and having a brief…

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Turkish Poem Takes On Prophetic Tone

My leaves are my eyes, I look in amazement I watch you with one hundred thousand eyes, I watch Istanbul Turkish poet Nâzım Hikmet Ran wrote those words about a tree…

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Foodphobia

It’s easy to forget just how fraught our culture’s relationship with food is, until you see example after example of “food horror” piled on top of each other like so…

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What If George Eliot Were Mary Ann Evans Instead?

Well, George Eliot is Mary Ann Evans. She chose a male pen name, believing that using her own name would not allow her to be taken seriously as a writer.…

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