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One Author’s battle against the “Sexy” Sci-Fi Cover

  • Pat Johnson
  • January 21, 2013
Over the years, the “sexy-heroine” has become the standard model for sci-fi and fantasy book covers—but why? Is there something about big breasted women wielding guns and striking contorted poses…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee

  • Julie Morse
  • January 21, 2013
Dan Weiss will return on January 24th. Until then… No, seriously, where’s the leopard? You may be able to see Jupiter and Saturn this month. Happy 71st birthday, Muhammed Ali!…
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LETTERS TO EACH OTHER III

  • Lisa Dusenbery
  • January 18, 2013
If you’re participating in Letters to Each Other, make sure you get your letter sent off today! Click here for more on how to partake in the program.
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Russifying the Rumpus

  • Pat Johnson
  • January 18, 2013
Aaron Gilbreath’s essay on smoking was recently translated into Russian by InsoSmI.ru, an organization in Russia that translates news, blogs, and essays from English into Russian. We think it’s pretty…
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  • Morning Coffee

Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee

  • Julie Morse
  • January 18, 2013
Dan Weiss will return on January 24th. Until then… Check out this living fossil, the Coelacanth. Tell your Java to watch out! A blobfish? Is that a squirrel? No! It’s…
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Is PTSD Contagious?

  • Lisa Dusenbery
  • January 17, 2013
At Mother Jones, Mac McClelland reports on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in veterans and their families. “Medical journals note some family members of vets exhibit symptoms ‘almost identical to PTSD.’ Except the…
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Thanks, USA Today!

  • Lisa Dusenbery
  • January 17, 2013
Yesterday, we mentioned McDonald’s plan to pair books with Happy Meals in the UK. USA Today likes the idea, too!
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Thanks, Jezebel!

  • Lisa Dusenbery
  • January 17, 2013
Jezebel gave love to Timothy Leo Taranto’s visual puns of literary greats. We love you back!
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  • Morning Coffee

Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee

  • Julie Morse
  • January 17, 2013
Dan Weiss will return on January 24th. Until then… A fountain that thinks it’s a printer. Phoebe Chung has portrait lighting gone wild. Your emotions should know these words. Carl…
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The Violence of Mexican Drug Cartels

  • Lisa Dusenbery
  • January 16, 2013
A bitterly violent war against Mexican Drug Cartels wages on across the U.S. border. Tens of thousands are being murdered, and over a million are being forced to flee their homes.…
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“A miracle is just an accident, with fancy trappings”

  • Julie Morse
  • January 16, 2013
Happy Birthday, Susan Sontag. You would have been 80 today. Here is an entry from her collection of journals and notebooks, As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh. Also, check out…
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The New Young Folk Singer You’re Gonna Want to Hear

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • January 16, 2013
It may have taken Jessica Pratt five years to get her debut album released after she recorded it, but judging by the well-deserved welcome mat critics are rolling out for…
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