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Some Queer Writers of Color
This dovetails nicely with Roxane Gay’s post about writers of color: a list of writers of color who are also queer. “I thought, I’m sure I can come up with 50 books by LGBT people of color,” writes the post’s author.…
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup
Our posting schedule was a little light over the holiday weekend, but Michelle Dean’s ode to used books is well worth a read: My copy of Anne of Green Gables, the one my dad read to me, is worn and…
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Notable New York, This Week 11/26-12/2
This week in New York, you get Saturday off but that’s it: MONDAY 11/26: The Strand hosts a benefit reading for PEN’s Prison Writing Program, featuring readings by Lili Taylor, Nick Flynn, Touré, and Bryonn Bain. 7:30pm, $35. TUESDAY 11/27: Rudy’s,…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
It is pretty cool to uncover a 1920s Berlin cabaret. Does being overweight make you (scientifically) jollier (no, well, sometimes). Here is some cross-section anatomy for you. Letters from space! And now some 19th Century mathematical drawings of human consciousness.
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Lit-Link Round-Up
The habits of famous (mostly dead) writers. I love Richard Cox, LitReactor, and this list of 10 Awesome Writers You’ve Never Heard of Before. Though I am happy to say I bet you have heard of plenty of ’em, including…
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The New Sincerity
In a New York Times op-ed that’s been making its way around the internet, Christy Wampole asserts that irony is the ethos of our age. At The Atlantic, Jonathan D. Fitzgerald argues that she has it backwards. “All across the pop…
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Mary Todd Lincoln: The Controversial First Lady
Mary Todd Lincoln was no Jackie Kennedy. Although Mary Lincoln is often portrayed as being consumed by aristocratic airs, she hardly fit in with the upper-class. She spent hefty sums of money on custom tailored dresses to “look the part;”…
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Glad We Got That One Sorted Out
Is humankind basically good or basically evil? Or does it vary too widely from person to person to generalize across the whole species? Well, some scientists took a look, and it turns out we’re good. So we can all stop…
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Happy Baby Roundup
The Happy Baby Kickstarter campaign has 21 days to reach the $85,000 funding goal. You can make a donation here. ‘Like’ Happy Baby on Facebook! Stephen Elliott talks with a Happy Baby Kickstarter backer, Stacey Lewis of the legendary City Lights bookstore. You know we…
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Skip the Forced Family Fun and Volunteer This Thanksgiving
Seriously, this Thanksgiving, would you rather 1) endure awkward conversations with those cousins with whom you have nothing in common, and yet another interrogation about your life choices from your grandmother, or 2) help out the homeless, the infirm, and…
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“1233. I was happy until I was actually happy at which point I wasn’t happy.”
The Millions muses on translation via Paul Legault’s The Emily Dickinson Reader and the magazine Telephone Journal. Both platforms have created English-to-English translations of classic pieces, through reinventions of childhood games and a format similar to SparkNotes. But the best response…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
We’ll be taking Thursday and Friday off this week, so we better link to 86 years of Thanksgiving Day Parade floats now. Midcentury architecture magazine covers (are great) Beware of Chinese space children. Has Curiosity found organic molecules? (Maybe!) Meanwhile,…