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You Are Behaving Like An Animal
Forthrite presents: You are behaving like an animal, a book and series of prints by Rumpus illustrator Liam Golden! You are behaving like an animal invites viewers to re-invent the myths and metaphors of Human vs. Animal, Human as Animal, Animal as…
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The Bullies of Goodreads
“When you’re an author, you expect that you’re going to get bad reviews. You expect that you may even get extremely bad, unfair reviews. But there is a segment of Goodreads that has gotten completely, utterly out of hand.” Author…
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Feeling Unlucky?
If you’re feeling unlucky, think about Winston from 1984 or Grandmother from A Good Man is Hard to Find. How about Gregor from The Metamorphosis? These characters didn’t necessarily have an unfortunate Friday the 13th but we can all agree, they certainly had…
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The Power of Borrowing Books
The public library system becomes the site of a resistance struggle between citizens and the mayor in Eric Lundgren’s debut novel The Facades. In his analysis published in The New Yorker, Jon Michaud discusses the importance of Lundgren’s work in…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Hey guess what, we finally made it into interstellar space. This is what it sounds like. Important news: typewriters are pretty. Atlas Obscura has your ruin porn for the day. Perhaps you’d like to see some mid-century science exhibition postcards.
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Love Love Love
“You could have the baby,” he said. “Best case scenario, it would absolutely destroy my relationship, like completely burn it to the ground, and then we would get together. It would be hard, but I would do it.”
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Remembering David Foster Wallace
Five years ago today, groundbreaking writer David Foster Wallace took his own life. Maria Popova at Brain Pickings remembers him with a post excerpting Conversations with David Foster Wallace, a “collection of 22 interviews and profiles of the beloved author.” A…
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Book Club Love
In a post titled “The New Golden Age of Online Book Clubs,” Flavorwire shouts out the Rumpus Book Club as one of many sites using new technology to recreate the age-old pleasure of talking about books. (For an example of…
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Rest in Peace, Patriarchy
Yesterday, Slate announced the death of the patriarchy at the age of several thousand years. The Cut’s Kat Stoeffel has honored the dearly departed, which will be mourned by civilizations across the globe, by compiling a list of “39 Things We’ll Miss About…
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“Kholden Kolfeeld’s” Russian Fans
Amid the flood of J. D. Salinger articles related to the upcoming biography and documentary about him, this New Yorker essay by Reed Johnson stands out. It has nothing to do with the biography, actually. It’s about Russian translations of The Catcher in…
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“Fear and Anxiety…Link All of Us Across the Centuries”
An excerpt from Joel F. Harrington’s book The Faithful Executioners is a featured Longreads Members Pick and well worth a few minutes of your time. Starting with a creative nonfictional account of an executioner in Germany in the 1500s, the piece…
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250,000 Books Head to the Landfill
Book lovers, avert your eyes: the Fairfax County Public Library in Virginia took a quarter million books and threw them in the trash. It’s common for libraries to prune their collections, getting rid of outdated or unpopular books in favor…