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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Dan Weiss will return on January 24th. Until then… Kill your bed bugs by taking this pill. The Museum of Math just opened its doors. It’s home to the world’s only L.E.D. foot-touch “math square”. Want to be an astronaut?…
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Juicing With Arthur Miller
“Drugs won’t do the writing for you, but steroids can take a monologue that would have gone to the warning track and knock it out of the park.” Apparently steroids are not just reserved for the athletic. At The Morning…
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A Dolphin With A Reputation
SF Weekly sits down with Malcolm J. Brenner, author of Wet Goddess and ex-lover of a dolphin. It might be one of the most fascinating interviews you’ve ever read. She began doing things like opening her jaws and running her…
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Night Writer Society and the 6-Word Memoir
The Night Writer Society, a new and mysterious group of writers based out of 826 Valencia is hosting its first event on February 5th featuring Larry Smith, creator of SMITH Magazine and the six-word memoir. Participants will spend the evening…
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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…