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New York: Still Not the Only Interesting Place to Live
“Like many people who moved to San Francisco in the early 1990s, I did it because San Francisco was cheap,” Ken Layne writes in a post for the Awl titled “Is San Francisco the Brooklyn to Silicon Valley’s Unbuilt Manhattan?”…
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Pen & Ink, The Book!
Big news from Rumpus managing editor Isaac Fitzgerald and artist Wendy MacNaughton: Pen & Ink, the duo’s Tumblr devoted to tattoos and the stories behind them, will be made into a book! The book promises favorite classics along with never before…
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NYC Public Libraries Are Happenin’
Despite the surge of e-literature and the fact that since 2008, the city has cut back library funds by $68 million, NYC public libraries have become exceedingly more popular in the last year. There has been a 40% increase in…
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After Garfield
The Economist has a comprehensive article up about how the Internet has revolutionized the stagnant comics industry by demolishing barriers to publication and enabling artists to make a profit in new ways. Sure, they’re five or ten years late to the…
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“It’s a broad church that way”
In one brief quote, the contradictions and joys of literature as a mirror. Andrew Sullivan cites our interview with the eloquent Zadie Smith.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
One last year-in-review: National Geographic has your photos of 2012. These photos of the blue whale’s installation at the American Museum of Natural History are my favorite things today. Although Escape From Michel Foucault is pretty great too. Hey look,…
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Happy Birthday, Simone de Beauvoir!
You would have been 105 today. “I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and…
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The Greatest Pickpocket in the World
There’s a reason everyone you know is tweeting links to the New Yorker story about a master pickpocket, and that reason is: it’s amazing. You can’t help but love the feats of thievery it describes—nabbing the sunglasses off someone’s face without…
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Tweeting Drone Strikes
I started this Twitter account because I expected no one to follow it. In some ways, that was the point — I didn’t really think anyone wanted to be interrupted by all this data. The fact that 19,000 people want…
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A Good Autodidact Is Hard to Find
For the Atlantic‘s “By Heart,” “a series in which authors share and discuss their all-time favorite passages in literature,” Jim Shepard discusses Flannery O’Connor, James Joyce, and the painfully fleeting nature of epiphany: This kind of conversion notion is based on…
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Lessons from the Psych Ward
“‘I see he hasn’t killed you, then,’ he says casually. ‘You going soft in your old age, Larry?’” Scientific American has posted an excerpt of The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success by…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Today’s place-I-want-to-go: the Harbin Ice Festival! Rogue planets are the best planets. Michael Zimmerer’s pictures of snow and the American West are pretty nice. Now let’s explore London in the 1930s night. I wonder how much competition there was to…